Ethiop
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Ethiop
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops
Example Sentences
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These vagabonds had just thrown the Ethiop down into the mud, and were about to divide their booty, when Agias, acting on a generous impulse, rushed out from the tavern to the rescue.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
Proud in the Syrian sun, In gold and purple sheen, The dusky Ethiop queen Smiled on King Solomon.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
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
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 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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