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The Story of a West Indian Policeman choose

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[WI] H. Thomas West Indian Policeman 26: A totally different sort from the ‘buckra ladies’ to whom they were accustomed. [...] Those used invariably to speak of their uninvited guests as ‘de poor buckra’.
at buckra-lady (n.) under backra, adj.
[WI] H. Thomas West Indian Policeman 365: You have a very good suit of tweed clothes on, but who mek de cloth: buckra, else naygur?
at nagah, n.
[WI] H. Thomas West Indian Policeman 367: He was not black, but of the shade of colour known in Jamaica as ‘sambo’.
at sambo, n.1
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