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 Translation for 'blackamoor' from English to Russian
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NOUN   blackamoor | blackamoors
SYNO Black | blackamoor | Black person | ...
арап {м} [чернокожий человек] [устр.]blackamoor [archaic] [pej.]
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Usage Examples English
  • ... , "The Blackamoor of Peter the Great" or "The Negro of Peter the Great") is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin.
  • Nearby places include Ewood and Blackamoor. It is situated in the valley of the River Darwen.
  • Farndale used to be part of the giant Blackamoor parish of Nicholas Postgate fame. Today the nearest catholic church is in KIrkbymoorside.
  • Blackamoor is one village in Lancashire, England which is to the south of Blackburn.
  • In modern times, the blackamoor is considered to have racist connotations, with its association to colonialism and slavery.

  • The gueridon, a tall stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized blackamoor gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the eighteenth century, found their models in Brustolon's work.
  • The coat of arms of Eching shows the Freising blackamoor and heath blossoms flanking St. Andrew's Cross. The coat of arms has been used by Eching since 1967.
  • In an attempt to stave off accusations of racism, the tray-carrying blackamoor had been changed into a "mage" of golden skin colour in 2004.
  • A Highlander figure indicated the sale of Scottish snuff, and a Blackamoor figure that tobacco from the Caribbean was available.
  • The Blackamoor goldfish is featured on a commemorative 2018 postage stamp from Mozambique.

  • According to Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, in Greek variants, the mysterious servant may be a "blackamoor" or pasha, summoned by uttering an interjection ("Alas" or "Woe is me").
  • The poet James Hogg encountered a Brocken spectre on Ben MacDhui as far back as 1791, describing "a giant blackamoor, at least thirty feet high, and equally proportioned, and very near me.
  • There are a number of contradictions between the biographies of Pushkin and the German novel "The Blackamoor of Peter the Great", based on his great-grandfather.
  • A contemporary description of the 1590 Edinburgh event by a Danish observer distinguished between townspeople who wore masks and had had painted legs and arms, and "an absolutely real and native blackamoor".
  • Together with the 1771 chapel, a Capuchin friary stood on Blackamoor Lane from the mid-18th century until the 1850s.

  • Most important works are the Blackamoor Bridge in Ulriksdal Palace and Oscar I's Orangery in the garden of Tullgarn Palace.
  • The lyrics of the comic opera "The Blackamoor Wash'd White" (1776) by Henry Bate Dudley have been quoted as perpetuating negative racist stereotypes.
  • Around that time, the figure on the front and the byname "Im Mohren" (to the blackamoor) appeared for the first time.
  • Former drinking establishments included The Blackamoor's Head (later renamed The Black Boy) and The Railway Inn, which opened in around 1780 and 1860 respectively; however, both had closed by the 1960s.
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