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Definition of Negress
1. Noun. A Black woman or girl.
Generic synonyms: Black, Black Person, Blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
Definition of Negress
1. n. A black woman; a female negro.
Definition of Negress
1. Noun. (dated literary now considered offensive or ethnic slur) A black female. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Negress
1. a Negro woman [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Negress
1. Origin: Cf. F. Negrese, fem. Of negre a negro. See Negro. A black woman; a female negro. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Negress
Literary usage of Negress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noble Deeds of Woman; Or, Examples of Female Courage and Virtue by Elizabeth Starling (1881)
"The faithful negress flew to the chamber, where it lay in the most profound ...
The child was indeed saved; but the unfortunate negress died soon after, ..."
2. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"In the evening about 9 o'clock he, the witness, was again called by N. Boot's boy
to see the negress. On arriving there he found her very low. ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"She told the negress her story, and how she had watched the forty days, forty hours,
... So the girl lay down and slept, and the negress hid her, ..."
4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1831)
"negress the favorite at starting ; and the winner of each heat the favorite 1er
the succeeding one. VOL. ..."
5. On the Negro's Place in Nature by James Hunt, Anthropological Society of London (1863)
"should be remarked that the occipital vertebra of the negress is more spacious
than that of the Negro." Tiedemann affirmed that the brain ..."
6. Among the Women of the Sahara by Jean Pommerol (1900)
"negress SLAVES. " MADAME, would you not like to buy a pretty negress ? I know,
of one for sale, whom you can have for a hundred douros. ..."
7. Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries by John Petherick, Katherine Harriet Edlman Petherick (1869)
"on inquiry ascertained that a negress had been hung to a tree between our station
and that of a trader named Khurshid Aga. ..."
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