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Meaning of blackamoor

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

blackamoor

noun

Definitions

  1. A person with dark skin, especially one from north Africa

  2. A blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child

  3. A stylized Negro

    Example: Argent, three blackamoors' heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.