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blackamore

blackamore is the alternative form 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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Forms of blackamore

pluralblackamores

Questions about blackamore

What is blackamore the alternative form of?
Blackamore is the alternative form of blackamoor.

Words near blackamore in the dictionary

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

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