单词 | negroland |
释义 | Negrolandn. Now chiefly historical. = black Africa n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). Also (occasionally): the southern United States.In early use as a name applied to sub-Saharan Africa or part of it; (also, in quot. 1658) a country or region inhabited by black Africans.See usage note at Negro n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [noun] > black or white regions Negroland1658 black Africa1789 white Africa1899 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > southern states south1779 Sunny South1833 Negroland1836 Old South1847 Dixie1859 Cousin Sally1861 sunbelt1918 down home1920 Deep South1936 1658 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 3) ii. i. 42 The softer veines of Chrystal remain indissolvable in scorching territories, and the Negro land of Congor. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 4 In Negroland are several Fruits that yield Wine, in great esteem among the Inhabitants. 1756 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 209 Either in Negroland or round the Cape of Good Hope. 1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 187 The princes on the coast of Negroland. 1800 C. Smith Force of Calumny i. ix. 21 Under the palmtree of Negroland, as under the oak of Germany, domestic peace, and domestic comforts, are, if not the only, at least the prime sources, of mortal happiness. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xvi. 302 In Negroland, witchcraft is even now the most common of all crimes. 1836 F. A. Kemble Let. 5 Oct. in Rec. Later Life (1882) I. 66 The nearest town to this estate, Brunswick, is..a wretched hole, where I am assured it will be impossible to obtain a decent lodging for me... The owner will go..without us, on his expedition to Negroland. 1861 Littell's Living Age June 544 At present very little English merchandise finds its way to the great emporium of Negroland. 1901 Daily Chron. 12 Aug. 7/5 Nothing, they declare, will place the white man in lasting possession of Negroland. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 145/1 Africa south of the Sahara is by no means coterminous with negroland. 1993 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 May 29 There are 17th-and 18th-century maps of Africa on which regions are marked Negroland and Barbaria, and the heart of the continent bears the legend ‘This country is wholly unknown to the Europeans’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658 |
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