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blackamoor: tags: [archaic] [offensive]

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Definition:

1. (archaic, offensive) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa
2. a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child

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The first day we came to Bath, he fell into a violent passion; beat two black-a-moors, and I was afraid he would have fought with their master; but the stranger proved a peaceable man.

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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"Enough! I understand,"—said Mrs. Cadwallader. "You shall be innocent. I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself."

George Eliot. Middlemarch