| 单词 | blackamoor's tooth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackamoor's tooth blackamoor's tooth n. now historical a white cowrie shell, esp. as formerly used as currency in Africa; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells buckie1596 blackamoor's tooth1700 burgau1753 seashell1837 Bombay shell1858 paua shell1873 black helmet1876 1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 36 He has Shells called Blackmoors Teeth, I suppose..from their Whiteness. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. ii. ii. 102 Periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth..and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of Nature. 1901 M. Newbigin Life by Seashore xii. 245 The only other of these Gasteropods we shall mention is that curious little one known as the ‘blackamoor's tooth’, or cowry. 1994 N. Lewis Bk. of Babel i. v. 121 It was the money of the African slave trade, by association with which in England the white shells were known as ‘blackamoor's teeth’. < as lemmas |
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