Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Negro
Negro, n. [Sp. < L. 'black'.]
Dark-skinned person; man from southeast Asia; someone with high melanin skin pigmentation; [fig.] dusk; nightfall; sunset time; darkness of evening in the western sky; [metaphor] pearl diver (see Browning's “Paracelsus”).
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