"blackamoor" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wash a blackamoor white"
    }
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      "name": "surf"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier blackmoor + -a-. By surface analysis, black + -a- + Moor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blackamoors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Heraldry",
          "orig": "en:Heraldry",
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        {
          "text": "Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II",
          "text": "Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts\nWhere blackamoors make captive Christian men ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn, Beethoven: Revealing His True Identity",
          "text": "\"What!\" exclaimed the Prince, \"the music is by the blackamoor (a black Moor). Well, my fine blackamoor, henceforth thou art in my service.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Barbara Hewson, An English Bar Disciplinary Tribunal went over the top when dealing with a racial harassment case.",
          "text": "What had Pringle done to merit such a severe penalty? He had said to Adusei during a criminal trial, \"How's the blackamoor?\". The Tribunal found that this was offensive, which clearly it was, and constituted an act of racial discrimination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Maurice W. Connell, The Prophet Said Silk (http://www.shields-research.org/Scriptures/BoM/SILK02.html), citing Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World, J. Eric S. Thompson (editor), page 73",
          "text": "Gage noted the clothing of the slaves of the Spanish nobles, and silk was common to them. \"The gentlemen have their train of blackamoor slaves, some a dozen, some half a dozen, waiting on them, in brave and gallant liveries, heavy with gold and silver lace, with silk stockings on their black legs, and roses on their feet, and swords by their sides.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa."
      ],
      "id": "en-blackamoor-en-noun-PsYi~hH0",
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, heraldry, now often offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "offensive",
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "negǎr",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "негър"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mouřenín"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Moor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "moriaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "word": "murjaani"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "person with dark skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Mohr"
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        {
          "text": "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.\nIn 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Doug Davis, Lost Girl, archived from the original on 2005-02-04",
          "text": "She seems to have been a serious girl, but she remembered her father's characterization of her as his \"Little blackamoor.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child."
      ],
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        "(now often offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child."
      ],
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        "offensive",
        "often"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmɔː(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmʊə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmɔɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmʊɹ/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "black"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Negro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blackamore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blackemore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blackemoor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ],
      "word": "blackymore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "blackmoor"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blackamoor"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms infixed with -a-",
    "English terms interfixed with -a-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "wash a blackamoor white"
    }
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      "name": "surf"
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  "etymology_text": "From earlier blackmoor + -a-. By surface analysis, black + -a- + Moor.",
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        {
          "text": "Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II",
          "text": "Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts\nWhere blackamoors make captive Christian men ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn, Beethoven: Revealing His True Identity",
          "text": "\"What!\" exclaimed the Prince, \"the music is by the blackamoor (a black Moor). Well, my fine blackamoor, henceforth thou art in my service.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Barbara Hewson, An English Bar Disciplinary Tribunal went over the top when dealing with a racial harassment case.",
          "text": "What had Pringle done to merit such a severe penalty? He had said to Adusei during a criminal trial, \"How's the blackamoor?\". The Tribunal found that this was offensive, which clearly it was, and constituted an act of racial discrimination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Maurice W. Connell, The Prophet Said Silk (http://www.shields-research.org/Scriptures/BoM/SILK02.html), citing Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World, J. Eric S. Thompson (editor), page 73",
          "text": "Gage noted the clothing of the slaves of the Spanish nobles, and silk was common to them. \"The gentlemen have their train of blackamoor slaves, some a dozen, some half a dozen, waiting on them, in brave and gallant liveries, heavy with gold and silver lace, with silk stockings on their black legs, and roses on their feet, and swords by their sides.\""
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa."
      ],
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          "black",
          "black"
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        "(archaic, heraldry, now often offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa."
      ],
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        "nobility",
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        {
          "text": "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.\nIn 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Doug Davis, Lost Girl, archived from the original on 2005-02-04",
          "text": "She seems to have been a serious girl, but she remembered her father's characterization of her as his \"Little blackamoor.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child."
      ],
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          "slave",
          "slave"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now often offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmɔː(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmʊə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmɔɹ/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblæk.əˌmʊɹ/",
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    {
      "word": "black"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negro"
    },
    {
      "word": "blackamore"
    },
    {
      "word": "blackemore"
    },
    {
      "word": "blackemoor"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "blackymore"
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      "word": "blackmoor"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "negǎr",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "негър"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mouřenín"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Moor"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "moriaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "word": "murjaani"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person with dark skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Mohr"
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  "word": "blackamoor"
}