Negrillo
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An African Pygmy.
"Negrillo children are sometimes caught and held in slavery; but when “they attain the age at which the Spanish laws set them free, they, with but a single known exception, return to the woods.[…]”"
Example
More examples"Negrillo children are sometimes caught and held in slavery; but when “they attain the age at which the Spanish laws set them free, they, with but a single known exception, return to the woods.[…]”"
Etymology
From Spanish negrillo, from negro + -illo.
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