Africaness

From African +‎ -ness.

Africaness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of Africanness.

Africaness (plural Africanesses)

1. (rare) A female African.
   • 1874 Holden with the Cords - Page 227 and 1875 The Young Englishwoman - Page 426 and 1876 Holden with the cords, by W.M.L. Jay - Page 167

     The table was elegant with glass, silver, and flowers ; the viands were the creation of one of those round, greasy Africanesses, who are born to the gridiron not less indubitably than a poet to the lyre