Translation for '
blackamoor' from English to Russian
NOUN | blackamoor | blackamoors | |
SYNO | Black | blackamoor | Black person | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- ... , "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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