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"text": "Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]",
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{
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{
"word": "Latina"
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{
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{
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},
{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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],
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],
"word": "سَوْدَاء"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "njehrycjánka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "негрыця́нка"
},
{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "black female",
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"feminine"
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{
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{
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"sense": "black female",
"word": "negrino"
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"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Negerin"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "black female",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "black female",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "black female",
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"word": "negrė"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "crnka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "црнка"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dade-siyâh",
"sense": "black female",
"word": "ددهسیاه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "murzynka"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negra"
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"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "negritjánka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "негритя́нка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
"word": "црнкиња"
},
{
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "black female",
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"feminine"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "černoška"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negra"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "black female",
"word": "negrinna"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "negress"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "múrynka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "му́ринка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nehrytjánka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "негритя́нка"
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"ipa": "/ˈniːɡɹɪs/"
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],
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},
{
"word": "negroid"
},
{
"word": "Latina"
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{
"word": "Muslimah"
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"ref": "1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137",
"text": "Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"text": "1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)"
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{
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},
{
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},
{
"word": "niggress"
},
{
"word": "nigress"
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{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zinjiyya",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "زِنْجِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zanjiyya",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "زَنْجِيَّة"
},
{
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"sense": "black female",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "سَوْدَاء"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "njehrycjánka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "негрыця́нка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "négǎrka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "не́гърка"
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{
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"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
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"sense": "black female",
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{
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"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "black female",
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{
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"word": "negrino"
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{
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"word": "neekerinainen"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
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"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "noire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Negerin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mohrin"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "négri",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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"word": "νέγρη"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "arapína",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αραπίνα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nera"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negra"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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"word": "negrė"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "crnka",
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dade-siyâh",
"sense": "black female",
"word": "ددهسیاه"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "black female",
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "negritjánka",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "негритя́нка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
"word": "црнкиња"
},
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "black female",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "black female",
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"sense": "black female",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "múrynka",
"sense": "black female",
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"word": "му́ринка"
},
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "nehrytjánka",
"sense": "black female",
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"word": "негритя́нка"
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],
"word": "negress"
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