Negrito
Americannoun
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Negritos,
plural
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Negritoes
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of Negrito
First recorded in 1760–70; from Spanish negrito, equivalent to negr(o) “black” + -ito, diminutive suffix; cf. Negrillo ( def. )
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In the interview, Fantastic Negrito walked a long and winding road to blues stardom.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2019
At least one more Grammy nominee, Oakland-based Fantastic Negrito, looked on from the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2019
Xavier Dphrepaulezz, the singer who leads Fantastic Negrito, reaches back to both the raw Chicago blues of Howlin’ Wolf and its rock extrapolations by way of Led Zeppelin and Captain Beefheart.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
On Thursday, the judges are announcing the winner is Oakland, California-based music project Fantastic Negrito with a performance recorded in a freight elevator behind a work bench desk.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
I go to the window And watch Negrito Race across our lawn And climb the fence In two blurry leaps.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
From their physical resemblance, undoubted common descent, and geographical proximity, one might also expect to find some affinity in the speech of the Andaman and Malay Negritoes.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
The result of these successive movements was that the Negritoes were first driven to the recesses of the interior by the Indonesians with whom they afterwards intermingled in various degrees.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
The Dance of the Negritos from Puebla, and the Danza de los Diablos, from the Costa Chica of Guerrero, symbolize the resistance that Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities lead in the face of marginalization and discrimination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
These people are found in a patchwork quilt of populations on islands of Southeast Asia, including Melanesians in Papua New Guinea, aboriginals in Australia, and Negritos in the Philippines.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2012
Those relict Negritos of Southeast Asia may be the last survivors of the source population from which New Guinea was colonized.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Semang Negritos persisted as hunter-gatherers trading with neighboring farmers but adopted an Austroasiatic language from those farmers—much as, we shall see, Philippine Negrito and African Pygmy hunter-gatherers adopted languages from their farmer trading partners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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