Black Peter

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Etymology

Calque of Dutch Zwarte Piet.

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Black Peter (plural Black Peters)

  1. The companion of Saint Nicholas in Dutch folklore, depicted as a blackamoor.
    • 2000 December 10, Michael Pye, “Displaced Person”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 August 2019:
      The young princes are beaten up on the street and bullied at school; they are flustered by the Dutch Christmas custom of blackface Black Peters who birch the naughty while St. Nicholas rewards the nice.

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