OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5932

negro

/ˈniɡɹoʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
negra • negro
A person of black African ancestry.
The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]
What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen…
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