Ethiop
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Ethiop
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops
Example Sentences
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He appeared as an immense Ethiop, with sharp visage and ample beard.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
One only at my side remained— Beside this Ethiop none; He, moveless as the steed he reined, Behind me sat alone.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
At death, Cassiopeia was made a constellation of thirteen stars. ... that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty’s praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Can the Ethiop change his skin, 23 Or the leopard his spots?
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
All this came to little purpose till one morning he observed an old Ethiop, who was tugging a heavy provision basket, stagger up the street, through the nondescript crowd.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
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