Definition of "blackamoor" [black•a•moor]

• Offensive A dark-skinned person, especially a person from northern Africa. (noun)

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• "Seeing this the villain blackamoor feared for himself; so he killed Abrizah and fled for his life."
• "But what if the blackamoor is a prophetic symbol and there really is a missing text to the third secret?"
• "A courtier, who saw Othello performed at the Globe Theatre, remarked, that the blackamoor was a brute, and not a man."