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Definition of Blackamoors
1. blackamoor [n] - See also: blackamoor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackamoors
Literary usage of Blackamoors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters: The Story of His Life and by John Camden Hotten, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope (1864)
"There stalks the tiger,—there the lion roars, 5 Who sometimes eats the luckless
blackamoors; All that he leaves of them the monster throws To jackals, ..."
2. The General chronicle and literary magazine (1811)
"NEGROES were sometime known in Europe by the name of blackamoors. The origin of
the name is this :—The coast of Africa, as low as the Senegal, is inhabited ..."
3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"S.1M6.1 "blackamoors." The fashion for these dark-skinned attendants is ...
In regard to the custom of attiring the " blackamoors " after an Eastern fashion ..."
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