blackamoor
Plural: blackamoors
Noun
- a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.
- A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
Examples
- Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier blackmoor + -a-. By surface analysis, black + -a- + Moor.
Synonyms
Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid, black
Scrabble Score: 20
blackamoor: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionaryblackamoor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blackamoor: not valid in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 24
blackamoor: valid Words With Friends Word