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1734 G. H. Nissen Court Deposition 9 May in R. H. Low & R. Valls St. John Backtime (1985) 11/3 Also they sought to murder a Negress belonging to Castan who escaped from them.

1750 M. Clancy Memoirs I. 123 The old Negress went off, and we were left alone.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 55 The Princess remained in the company of her Negresses.

1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 77 Now Negress Night came solemn down.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. xii. 208 She asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress slave at once? Joe offered no answer.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 101 A fine strapping young negress came out of the house.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xiv. 189 The negress sobbed hysterically.

1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 92 The negress Night, within her house of glass Watched the processions pass.

1970 J. Updike Bech 113 ‘In Travel Light, for example, you keep calling Roxanne a Negress.’ ‘But she was one.’ He added, ‘I loved Roxanne.’ ‘The fact is, the word has distinctly racist overtones.’

1988 M. Spark Far Cry from Kensington vii. 89 I myself had suffered attacks of rheumatic pain..and on the advice of an American negress whom I had met in the bus, I had started on the cure of a banana every day.