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† ˈtawny-moor Obs.
[f. tawny + Moor n.2: cf. Blackamoor.]
A name given to the tawny or brown-skinned natives of foreign lands; prob. originally to natives of northern Africa.
1603Owen Pembrokeshire v. (1892) 42 They seeme more like tawney Moores, then people of this lande. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres i. 22 Military Revells: wherein the Emperour himself ran a tilt, habited like a Tauny-moor. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 27 Tho' he was a Tawney-more Indian, yet he was a Converted one. 1717S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for Wife i. i. (1749) 14 There's a Black, a Tawnymoor, and a Frenchman. [1849A tawny Moor: see Moor n.2 1.] |