Difference between Black and Blackamoor

What is the difference between Black and Blackamoor?

Black as a noun is the colour/color perceived in the absence of light. while Blackamoor as a noun is (degrading) a person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern africa

Black

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless. without light. Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture. Bad; evil. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. Overcrowded. Lacking cream, milk and creamer. The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light. A black dye, pigment. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. A person of African descent. the black: The black ball. The edge of home plate a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make black, to blacken. To apply blacking to something. To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Example sentence: When in doubt, always wear black.

Blackamoor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (degrading) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africaa blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or childa stylized Negro

We hope you now know whether to use Black or Blackamoor in your sentence.

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