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Negroid   /nˈigrɔɪd/   Listen
Negroid

adjective
1.
Characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race.



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"Negroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... president. Such a man I had never seen before. He was, I should think, not less than six feet six inches high, and broad in proportion. His great arms hung down until the monstrous hands almost touched the knees. His skin was quite dark, almost negroid; and a thick, close mat of curly black hair covered his huge head like a thatch. His face was muscular, ligamentous; with great bars, ridges and whelks of flesh, especially about the jaws and on ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly

... that made the most startling impression upon their prisoner was their white skins—neither in color nor feature was there a trace of the negroid about them. Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing ...
— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... reverse end of a field-glass. They are sooty black in colour; their hair is short and woolly, clinging to the scalp in little crisp curls; their noses are flat, their lips protrude, and their features are those of the pure negroid type. They are sturdily built, and well set upon their legs, but they are in stature little better than dwarfs. They live by hunting, and have no permanent dwellings, camping in little family groups, wherever, ...
— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford



Words linked to "Negroid" :   individual, Africa, someone, pickaninny, person of colour, darkie, Uncle Tom, darkey, negro, archaism, tom, nigga, Black woman, picaninny, darky, somebody, Negress, soul, Black race, black, colored person, person, nigra, person of color, mortal, nigger, jigaboo, Negro race, coon, Black man, piccaninny, colored, spade



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