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Search phrase: kam

Plays

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PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
CoriolanusCor III.i.302.2This is clean kam.This is cleane kamme.
Henry IV Part 11H4 III.i.148And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuffAnd such a deale of skimble-skamble Stuffe,
Henry VH5 V.ii.202within me tells me thou shalt, I get thee with scambling,within me tells me thou shalt; I get thee with skambling,
Love's Labour's LostLLL V.ii.158.1Enter blackamoors with music, Mote with a speech,Enter Black moores with musicke, the Boy with a speech,
Love's Labour's LostLLL V.ii.264.2and blackamoorsQu.
Titus AndronicusTit IV.ii.51Enter Nurse with a blackamoor childEnter Nurse with a blackeaMoore childe.
Troilus and CressidaTC I.i.79care I? I care not an she were a blackamoor; 'tis all onecare I? I care not and she were a Black-a-Moore, 'tis all one

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Glossary

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blackamoordark-skinned African
Cambyses[pron: kam'biyseez] 6th-c BC king of the Medes and Persians, as represented in a 16th-c play by Thomas Preston, Cambyses
kamcrooked, misleading, perverse
skimble-skamblenonsensical, incoherent, rubbishy

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Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
BLACKPEOPLEblackamoor n
BLACKAMOORBASICsee BLACKsee
KAMBASICkam adj
MOOR [person]BASICblackamoor n
SKAMBLEBASICsee SKIMBLE
SKIMBLEBASICskimble-skamble adj

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