blackamoor

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈblæk.əˌmɔː(ɹ)/|/ˈblæk.əˌmʊə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈblæk.əˌmɔɹ/|/ˈblæk.əˌmʊɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa. archaic,offensive
    — Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.
  2. A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child. offensive
    — 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 labour markets. It became very fashionable for the wealthy to have "blackamoor" page boys and personal servants, as their complexions set off the pale-skinned beauty of the women of the family.

词形变化

blackamoors plural blackamore alternative blackemore alternative blackemoor alternative blackymore alternative,Scotland blackmoor alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
black Negro
衍生词
wash a blackamoor white

词源

From earlier blackmoor + -a-. By surface analysis, black + -a- + Moor.
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