blackamore

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A form of blackamoor — A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounblackamore (plural blackamores)

plural blackamores

  1. 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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