Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
blackamoor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
blackamoor .
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- noun Alternative form of
blackamoor .
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The child certainly knows, that the nurse that feeds it is neither the cat it plays with, nor the blackmoor it is afraid of: that the wormseed or mustard it refuses, is not the apple or sugar it cries for: this it is certainly and undoubtedly assured of: but will any one say, it is by virtue of this principle, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be,” that it so firmly assents to these and other parts of its knowledge?
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blackmoor, thanks. i do not have the original stratfor article but maudlin did acknowledged friedman. i would add a note to the top of the post.
John Mauldin's "geopolitics of China" Sun Bin 2008
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