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Negrillo

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Noun
  1. 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.[…]”"

Etymology

From Spanish negrillo, from negro + -illo.

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