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Negro   /nˈigroʊ/   Listen
Negro

noun
(pl. negroes)
1.
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).  Synonyms: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negroid.
adjective
1.
Relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair.



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"Negro" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the experiment emboldened her to throw off the most sacred observances of her past. She took up Madame Adelschein, she entertained the James J. Rollivers, she resuscitated Creole dishes, she patronized negro melodists, she abandoned her weekly teas for impromptu afternoon dances, and the prim drawing-room in which dowagers had droned echoed with ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton
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... honey soap will take it out," said Susy; but with all their washing and rinsing they could not make black white any more than the poor negro ...
— Little Prudy • Sophie May
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... about the car-wheels and track to pick up the crumbs which passengers throw away from their lunch-baskets. Just over the wild pineapple hedge close at hand, half a dozen naked negro children hover round the door of a low cabin; the mother, fat and shining in her one garment, gazes with arms akimbo at the scene of which she forms a typical part. The engineer imbibes a penny drink of thin Cataline wine and hastens ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou
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... person's gaze rested with something more than casual interest on his—Matt's—left forearm; whereupon the latter realized that his vis-a-vis yearned to see more of a little decoration which, in the pride of his first voyage, Matt had seen fit to have tattooed on the aforesaid forearm by the negro cook. So, since he was the best-natured young man imaginable, Matt decided presently to ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
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... Era un negro solemne monumento Que en medio de la estancia se elevaba, [1350] Y, a un tiempo a Montemar raro portento! Una tumba y un lecho semejaba: Ya imagin su loco pensamiento Que abierta aquella tumba le aguardaba; Ya imagin tambin que el ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
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