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The term "blackamoor" or "black moor" was once a general term for black people in English, [1] "formerly without depreciatory force" as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. [2] The style is now viewed by some as racist and culturally insensitive. [3] However, blackamoor pieces are still produced, mainly in Venice, Italy.
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
Blackamoor, Lancashire, a village in England; Blacka Moor, a moor in South Yorkshire, England; Black tetra, a small fish also called a blackamoor (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi) Black Moor goldfish; The Moor of Peter the Great, sometimes translated as The Blackamoor of Peter the Great; Blackamoores, a 2013 book
Here a despondent Ethiopian is pictured seated at a fountain where two Europeans are attempting to wash away his colour; the illustration is followed by a translation into Latin of Lucian's epigram. [9] From here the theme was taken up by Hieronymus Osius (1564) [10] and the English emblematist Geoffrey Whitney (1586). The long verse commentary ...
The Moor of Peter the Great (Russian: Арап Петра Великого, romanized: Arap Petra Velikogo, also translated as The Blackamoor of Peter the Great or The Negro of Peter the Great) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin. Written in 1827–1828 and first published in 1837, the novel is the first prose work of the ...
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins is a 2013 non-fiction book by British historian and writer Onyeka Nubia that explores the history of Black people in Tudor-era England.
Bottle of Mohrenbrauerei. Critics in Switzerland have characterized the use of the Moor's head as racist, when used as a symbol by a workers guild. [7]In 2012, activists requested the brewing company Mohrenbrauerei to remove the "Moor's head" from its bottles; the company declined, saying the design was part of heraldry used by the family who started the brewery.