Sentence examples for blackamoor from inspiring English sources
noun
A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa
"Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence" begins with a captivating bejewelled camel (pictured below) with "blackamoor" attendants.
Two blackamoor statues, each mirroring the other, each hoisting forever upward his burden of hand-painted, carved-by-hand peacock feathers.
Surrounded by a wealth of souvenirs of childhood (a pair of blackamoor lamps from his parents' house) and adulthood (artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, among dozens), Mr. Arias has as many sides as a disco ball and flickers through them just as fast.
Perhaps, even now, the "blackamoor lamp" is sitting just out of shot in that same drawing room, in pride of place – except, of course, on the enormously rare occasions when a visitor's ethnicity requires the dear little chap to hide behind some foliage.
Built in more ruthless times on the site of a demolished Elizabethan house, Clandon might not exist had an early Onslow not married an heiress, her fortune from slavery memorialised in marble "blackamoor" busts in the great hall.
This ritzy Torquay guesthouse won't be to everyone's taste: think gilding, gold damasks and red carpets, tassels, travertine marble and decadent blackamoor statues.
Wearstler covered every inch of it with malachite, onyx, and mirror, antique carpets from Agra and Khotan, statues of turbaned blackamoors, and Chinese screens, a bedazzlement that is documented in her second book, "Domicilium Decoratus".
Already the Italians have the souls of blackamoors".
The patrol never found him, but a few evenings later the captain went ashore to dine with a Turkish potentat, as he neared the host's palace he saw his missing cook standing at the entrance, obviously very chummy with the two blackamoors on guard.
Look at the faces on them — are they the blackamoors?" "Black Highlanders, more like," Walter says.
(In 1584, Reginald Scot wrote, "A damned soul may and doth take the shape of a black moor". Queen Elizabeth I called for the deportation of "blackamoors" from her green land).
