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- proper noun A village in
England . - proper noun offensive A
Moor .
Etymologies
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Moors; and the following are the first two illustrations of 'Blackamoor' in the Oxford _English Dictionary_: 1547, 'I am a blake More borne in
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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This sum does not include £2,640. 8s.8d. expense which was incurred to send another of the king's ships, the "Blackamoor," to the Gold Coast, in June, 1661. [
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The ultra-clever Basil Twist came up with his Petrushka Suite, three supple and ingenious puppets presenting the famous Blackamoor, Ballerina and Petrushka himself, as manipulated by a group of masterly puppeteers.
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POC were common enough in Elizabethan England at least in the big cities where noblemen kept their retinues that the Blackamoor handmaiden was a stock character in theater, and audiences saw nothing weird in Othello being a nobleman in Venice.
Reproducing Gender And Race Stereotypes in RuneScape » Sociological Images 2009
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What we do know is that Pushkin identified closely with his African ancestor, and began a book about him called “The Blackamoor of Petersburg.”
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What we do know is that Pushkin identified closely with his African ancestor, and began a book about him called “The Blackamoor of Petersburg.”
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Famous People Who Actually Were Significantly Black 2007
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The ultra-clever Basil Twist came up with his Petrushka Suite, three supple and ingenious puppets presenting the famous Blackamoor, Ballerina and Petrushka himself, as manipulated by a group of masterly puppeteers.
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What we do know is that Pushkin identified closely with his African ancestor, and began a book about him called “The Blackamoor of Petersburg.”
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The Ballerina dives into violent arabesques, Petrushka flings his limbs like a black belt in karate, the Blackamoor flexes his six-pack abs with savage abandon.
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But conditions in Mr. Twist's creative sanctum are much, much harder on the operators: three for Petrushka, that woebegone Russian Pierrot; three for the vainglorious, macho Blackamoor; and three for the haughty Ballerina they both desire.
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