Definitions For Blackamoor

Noun

BLACKAMOOR (plural BLACKAMOORs) (archaic, offensive) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child (heraldry) a stylized Negro : Argent, three blackamoors' heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.

Synonyms

black Negro

Translations

Bulgarian: негър, m Czech: mouřenín, m Dutch: nikker Finnish: murjaani German: Mohr Romanian: cioroi, m

Alternative forms

blackamore, blackemore, blackemoor blackymore {{qualifier, Scotland}} blackmoor {{qualifier, obsolete}}

Etymology

from earlier {{m + en + blackmoor}}, equivalent to black + moor.

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