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