Blackamoor

  1. Proper noun.  A village in England.
  2. Proper noun.  (obsolete, or) A Moor.
  3. Noun.  (degrading) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa.
  4. Noun.  a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
  5. Noun.  (heraldry) a stylized Negro.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.