Usually means: Antique sculptures depicting African figures.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word blackamoor:

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  1. blackamoor: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackamoor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blackamoor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blackamoor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blackamoor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blackamoor, blackamoor: Wordnik
  7. Blackamoor, blackamoor: Wiktionary
  8. blackamoor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blackamoor: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Blackamoor, blackamoor: Dictionary.com
  11. Blackamoor (decorative arts), Blackamoor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Blackamoor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. blackamoor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Blackamoor: Rhymezone
  15. Blackamoor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Blackamoor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. blackamoor: FreeDictionary.org
  18. blackamoor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. blackamoor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. blackamoor: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Blackamoor)

noun:  (archaic, heraldry, now offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.
noun:  (now offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
noun:  A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).
noun:  (obsolete or archaic, offensive) Alternative letter-case form of blackamoor [(archaic, heraldry, now offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.]

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