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  • noun Plural form of blackamoor.

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Examples

  • N.B. -- These are little shells which our children call blackamoors 'teeth.

    The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Daniel Defoe 1696

  • He led two armies, fifty thousand men, and all but five thousand of those soldiers were Indians, and if 'blackamoors' could not be trusted then Harris, Baird and everyone else was doomed, but the General knew he would make no headway against Baird's stubborn dislike of all Indians.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

  • [FN#80] Abyssinians can hardly be called "blackamoors," but the arrogance of the white skin shows itself in Easterns (e.g. Turks and Brahmans) as much as, if not more than, amongst Europeans.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • We wretched theatricals are like Jews and blackamoors: we cannot mix with respectable society.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • We wretched theatricals are like Jews and blackamoors: we cannot mix with respectable society.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • We wretched theatricals are like Jews and blackamoors: we cannot mix with respectable society.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • We wretched theatricals are like Jews and blackamoors: we cannot mix with respectable society.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • We wretched theatricals are like Jews and blackamoors: we cannot mix with respectable society.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • “Because my trade can neither spare the head nor the fingers,” said Blondel, “and these honest blackamoors threatened to cut me joint from joint if I pressed forward.”

    The Talisman 2008

  • The King lowered his voice and, twisting his tongue, spoke after the fashion of the blackamoors and said

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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