Ethiop
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Ethiop
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops
Example Sentences
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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
But the Ethiop cannot change his skin, nor can any man add a cubit to his stature.
From Hunting Sketches by Trollope, Anthony
Also of old time had mighty Antilochos this mind within him, who died for his father's sake, when he abode the murderous onset of Memnon, the leader of the Ethiop hosts.
From The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar
At death Cassiopea was made a constellation of thirteen stars. ... that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Black and black as an Ethiop The great sea-serpent lies coiled beneath, Living, living, but does not breathe.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
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