negress

• Negress

From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +‎ -ess.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹɪs/

negress (plural negresses)

1. (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.
   • 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:

     Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

   • 1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)

   Synonyms: negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress, nigress; see also Thesaurus:person of color

• negro
• negroid

• Latina
• Muslimah

• Gesners, Sengers, Gessner

negress c

1. (dated, now offensive) a negress

   Synonym: negrinna

Seldom used purely as an ethnic slur, though old-fashioned and often (somewhat) derogatory.

• negress in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• negress in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• negress in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)