blackamoor
- n a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing.
- Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men.
- A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death.