Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A black woman or girl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female negro; a female of one of the black races of Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A black woman; a female negro.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Black woman or girl
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Examples
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Though vulgarly called a "Negress," her skin was almost as fair as a Saxon's; and because of the mingling of Negro blood -- more beautiful in color.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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Though vulgarly called a "Negress," her skin was almost as fair as a Saxon's; and because of the mingling of Negro blood -- more beautiful in color.
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863
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I seem to recall that Thomas Jefferson fought for the sexual favors of that female Negress of his.
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There is a website where I've been called "the Negress" and a "filthy pig."
Cynthia Gordy: 32 Black Republicans Running for Congress--Can They Win? 2010
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Its time has long since passed, on many levels, the least of which is its provincial ideas note the casual bigotry in the ‘toy Negress’ Robert plays with and the anti-Semitic caricatures the bourgeoisie portray in one of their musical numbers.
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Did no one at that Fox Chyron department know how to spell "Negress?"
John Ridley: Do They Really Want To Play The Mi-chelle Game? 2008
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The African-American actress Juanita Moore, who would win an Academy Award nomination for her role in “Imitation of Life” 1959, appearing here as one of the psychiatric ward patients, is referred in the credits only as “Negress.”
Witness to Murder (1954) Jacqueline T Lynch 2008
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The African-American actress Juanita Moore, who would win an Academy Award nomination for her role in “Imitation of Life” 1959, appearing here as one of the psychiatric ward patients, is referred in the credits only as “Negress.”
Archive 2008-07-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2008
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Huschke estimates the cranial contents of a Negress at
Essays 2007
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It is true that in the North of the Union marriages may be legally contracted between Negroes and whites; but public opinion would stigmatize as infamous a man who should connect himself with a Negress, and it would be difficult to cite a single instance of such a union.
Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites Marian 2007
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