Ethiop
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Ethiop
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops
Example Sentences
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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 Davis, William Stearns
Can the Ethiop change his skin, 23 Or the leopard his spots?
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir
Whole Ethiop tribes who tilled the neighbouring lands Rigid in marble stood.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
How fair this Ethiop comes from th' holy fount!
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
"How do you get on, Sir?" says the stout young Ethiop.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
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