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blackmoor

blackmoor 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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Proper noun capitalized: Blackmoor

Blackmoor

  1. A suburb of Astley, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6900).
  2. A village in Selborne parish, south-west of Bordon, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7733).
  3. A hamlet in Chew Stoke parish, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5563).
  4. A hamlet in Churchill parish, near Lower Langford, North Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4661).
  5. A hamlet in West Buckland parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1618).

Forms of blackmoor

pluralblackmoors

Origin of blackmoor

From Old English blæc (“black”) + mōr (“moor”).

Words formed from blackmoor

Questions about blackmoor

What does blackmoor mean?
Blackmoor means a suburb of Astley, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6900).
What is blackmoor the alternative form of?
Blackmoor is the alternative form of blackamoor.
What part of speech is blackmoor?
Blackmoor is a proper noun.

Words near blackmoor in the dictionary

  1. Blackmer
  2. Blackmere
  3. Blackmers
  4. Blackmill
  5. Blackmon
  6. blackmoor
  7. Blackmoor Gate
  8. blackmoors
  9. Blackmore
  10. Blackmore Vale
  11. Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blackmoor (page history and authors); Blackmoor (page history and authors); blackamoor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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