seal n.2
(US) a black woman; later use also a black man.
![]() | On Broadway 30 July [synd. col.] A ‘seal’ is Broadwayese for a colored gel. | |
![]() | AS XIX:3 174: The DAE does not list such vulgar synonyms for Negro as [...] seal. | ‘Designations for Colored Folk’ in|
![]() | Balloons in Black Bag 90: If the Major calls him darky, [...] eightball, seal, jungle bunny, skunk or Zulu to his face, we’re going to be short of a valuable new comedy act. | |
![]() | Lang. of Ethnic Conflict 47: Color Allusions, Other than ‘Black’ and ‘Negro’: seal [often fem. 1930]. |