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blackamoors

blackamoors is the plural of blackamoor.

Meaning of blackamoor

Noun

blackamoor (plural blackamoors)

  1. (archaic, offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.
    • Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.
  2. (offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
    • In 1596 Elizabeth I had already decreed that all "blackamoors" should be sent back to Spain or Portugal as they were disturbing local labour markets. It became very fashionable for the wealthy to have "blackamoor" page boys and personal servants, as their complexions set off the pale-skinned beauty...1893, Annotation to The Diary of Samuel Pepys by "Mary", http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/08/10/index.php citing Restoration London, Liza Picard, pages 178-179.

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Noun capitalized: Blackamoors

Blackamoors

  1. (plural) plural of Blackamoor

Questions about blackamoors

What is blackamoors the plural of?
Blackamoors is the plural of blackamoor.
What part of speech is blackamoors?
Blackamoors is a noun.

Words near blackamoors in the dictionary

  1. blackademics
  2. Blackall
  3. Blackalls
  4. Blackalls Park
  5. blackamoor
  6. blackamoors
  7. blackamore
  8. blackamores
  9. Blackanese
  10. Blackard
  11. Blackards

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