英:[ˈblækəmɔ:(r)]
美:[ˈblækəˌmʊr]
英:[ˈblækəmɔ:(r)]
美:[ˈblækəˌmʊr]
词根:black
adj.black 黑色的;黑人的;邪恶的
n.black 黑色;黑人;黑颜料
vi.black 变黑
vt.black 使变黑;把鞋油等涂在…上;把(眼眶)打成青肿
noun
or less commonly Blackamoor a European style of decorative art in which dark-skinned usually male human figures are depicted in a stylized and ornate formalso: an object of decorative art (such as a statue or a piece of jewelry) in this style Note: Blackamoor art is controversial and is often considered racist. —often used before another noun The next month, another royal—Princess Michael of Kent—caused controversy after wearing a racist blackamoor brooch to the Queen's yearly Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace. —Julia Arciga As a general rule, the blackamoor figures found on the current market are presented as servant figures bearing light by holding a candle, candelabra or torch, or the figure may be holding up a tabletop or carrying a basket of fruit. —Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson
Today exuberance reigns, the rooms having been infiltrated by antique Egyptian figurines, tomb rubbings, Asian vases, blackamoors, marble busts … , and oil portraits in brightly gilded frames. —Meredith Etherington-Smith
dated, offensive a dark-skinned personespecially: black sense 4a
"黑皮肤的人,黑皮肤的非洲人",来自 black(形容词)+ Moor,带有连接元素。
black >entry 1 + moor; source of the medial -a- uncertain
The first known use of blackamoor was in 1581
1 In the afternoon they rode together,—the father, the daughter, and the blackamoor, and much was told to Cousin George as to the nature of the property.
2 Pretty soon he came back, a blackamoor with smoke; but he had the baby safe and sound, and gave it to its mother.
3 A similar scene was taking place at the next gun, with a little blackamoor about the size of Sandy Baker.
4 Ed blackamoor Bell : If it aint, till do dirt the disorderliness gets here.
爱德·汤姆·贝尔: 即使不是, 也会有混乱找到这里的.
5 You may think, with a twinge of unease, of cartoons, or of old racist stereotypes, or of race as performance: blackamoors, Sambos, Madea.
6 No, no! if one must have a doctor, let it be a Christian man with a white skin; but a downright blackamoor!
7 “Only a blackamoor’s,” she retorted, now white and tremulous with anger.
8 You have such an admiration for blackamoors, that then, perhaps, you might learn to care for me a degree more than you do just now.
9 Those blackamoors have fled helter-skelter at the first signs of the eruption.
10 The recreant blackamoor was almost mad with terror, his skin turned a dusky-greyish hue, and his eyes rolled about in an agony of fright.
11 Already the Italians have the souls of blackamoors.”
12 It's a Veronese picture, as near as can be—with me as the inevitable dwarf, the small blackamoor, put into a corner of the foreground for effect.
13 The inhumanly brutal Aaron, the blackamoor lover of Tamora, is arch villain in all this; but the ungovernable passions of Titus render him scarcely more attractive.
14 She went her ways in great state, having two small knavish blackamoor pages in gold tissue at her heels, and a little ways off she was followed by a brace of well-armed serving-rascals.
15 "Yes, we are," said I, in very great astonishment, "but we will not sail with the devil; and who ever saw a negro Scotchman before, the spirit of Nicol Jarvie conjured into a blackamoor's skin!"
16 On 4, there were a couple of blackamoor sculptures, even larger than his soon-to-be-departing peacocks.
17 And now for the next thirty years of his life he devoted himself to the task of what FitzGerald called washing his blackamoor, “a Tragedy pathetic as Antigone or Iphigenia.”
18 Strangely enough, you are the first Irishman I have ever seen, although I have seen many blackamoors.
19 "Now, ye blackamoors, haul away!" yelled the master to the crowd on the banks.
20 And, mark my words, lad, if ever it comes to pass that these blackamoors are freed, as Master Penn would persuade us to do, then these islands are doomed.
2 皮肤黝黑的人
4 黑人
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