negress

plural negresses · alternative Negress

1. datedliterarynow offensive and an ethnic slurA black female.

   1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)

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   Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

   1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137

   Hardly anywhere in the world will you find a negress driving a car. A negress acting as a chauffeur is still more extraordinary. Barely conceivable even in Harlem, but that was certainly where the car was from.

   1954, Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 6

   Synonyms: negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress, nigress, BIPOC, BME, colored

plural Negresses

1. Alternative letter-case form of negress.