English Dictionary

samboe

名詞

別表記 異形

Alternative form of Sambo (“person who is three-quarters black”)

日本語の意味

「samboe」は「sambo」の別形であり、英語では“3/4 黒人”とされる人物を指す表現です。

In 18th-century records, colonists sometimes used the term samboe to classify a person who was three-quarters Black.

18世紀の記録では、植民地の人々が個人を分類するために、4分の3が黒人である人を指す語を使うことがありました。

意味（1）

Alternative form of Sambo (“person who is three-quarters black”)

A samboe, says he, is the nearest remove from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; .. Among all these names, hard to pronounce and harder to remember, the samboe or mongrel, as it is oftener called, the mulatto and the mustee, are the only distinctions between the black and white that really pass current, though more have been defined;

samboes （ plural ）