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Negroid   Listen
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Negroid  n.  A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Negroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Psammenitus' battle of Pelusium in B.C. 524, made the remark that the Egyptian crania were hardened by shaving and insolation and the Persians were softened by wearing head-cloths, he tripped in his anthropology. The Iranian skull is naturally thin compared with that of the negroid Egyptian and the negro. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... The Brahmans had found certain grades of population marked by color lines, shaded off from the negroid aborigines to the Dravidians, and from them to the more recent and nobler Aryans, and they were prompt also to seize upon a mere poetic and fanciful expression found in the Rig Veda, which seemed to give countenance to their fourfold caste distinction by representing one class as having ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

... River, occupies the hinterland between the back end of south-west Somaliland and the east, that is to say, the west, bank of Lake P'schu. It thus forms an enclave between the Dog Men of Darfur and the Negritos of T'chk. The inhabitants of Kowfat are a coloured race three quarters negroid and more than ...
— My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock



Words linked to "Negroid" :   jigaboo, Black woman, person of color, Black person, soul, individual, colored person, somebody, Negress, blackamoor, darkie, someone, darkey, nigga, nigra, person of colour, Uncle Tom, Black man, piccaninny, coon, tom, colored, nigger



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