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Africaness
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English
Etymology 1
From en African ness.
Noun
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en Africanness.
Etymology 2
Noun
en rare A female African.
1874 Holden with the Cords - Page 227 and 1875 The Young Englishwoman - Page 426 and 1876 Holden with the cords, by W.M.L. Jay - Page 167
The table was elegant with glass, silver, and flowers ; the viands were the creation of one of those round, greasy Africanesses, who are born to the gridiron not less indubitably than a poet to the lyre