Blackamoor
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blackamoor¹
- /ˈblæk.əˌmɔː(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈblæk.əˌmʊə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈblæk.əˌmɔɹ/ US
- /ˈblæk.əˌmʊɹ/ US
Where it comes from
From earlier blackmoor + -a-. By surface analysis, black + -a- + Moor.
noun blackamoors · blackamore · blackemore · blackemoor · blackymore · blackmoor
- A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa. Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.
- A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child. 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. In 1596 Elizabeth I had already decreed that all "blackamoors" should be sent back to Spain or Portugal as they were disturbing local
Blackamoor²
Where it comes from
From Blakemor (first recorded use in 1210), from Old English blæc (“black”) + mór (“moor”).
proper noun
- A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).
Blackamoor³
noun Blackamoors
- Alternative letter-case form of blackamoor.blackamoor highly discontented to understand the great numbers of negars and Blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm... who are fostered and relieved [i.e. fed] her to the great annoyance of her own liege people, that want the relief [i.e. food], which those people consume, as also for
