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black⋅a⋅moor

  [blak-uh-moor]
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–noun Now Usually Offensive.
1. a black person.
2. any dark-skinned person.
Origin:
1540–50; unexplained var. of phrase black Moor
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black·a·moor   (blāk'ə-mŏŏr')   
n.   Offensive
A dark-skinned person, especially a person from northern Africa.

[black + -a-, of unknown origin + Moor.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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