Meanings
plural blackamores
- alternativeAlternative form of blackamoor.
Hence they call a Blackamore (themſelves are tawnie, by the Sunne and their annoyntings, yet they are borne white :)
1643, Roger Williams, A key into the languages of America, page 52
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