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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Negro  \Ne"gro\,  n.;  pl  {Negroes}.  [Sp.  or  Pg  negro,  fr  negro 
  black,  L.  niger;  perh.  akin  to  E.  night.] 
  A  black  man;  especially,  one  of  a  race  of  black  or  very  dark 
  persons  who  inhabit  the  greater  part  of  tropical  Africa,  and 
  are  distinguished  by  crisped  or  curly  hair,  flat  noses,  and 
  thick  protruding  lips;  also  any  black  person  of  unmixed 
  African  blood,  wherever  found 




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