Black Peter

plural Black Peters · alternative Black Pete

1. The companion of Saint Nicholas in Dutch folklore, depicted as a blackamoor.

   The young princes are beaten up on the street and bullied at school; they are flustered by the Dutch Christmas custom of blackface Black Peters who birch the naughty while St. Nicholas rewards the nice.

   2000 December 10, Michael Pye, “Displaced Person”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2019