nègre

from Spanish negro (black, black person), from Latin niger ("black"); (1704) "black person employed as a slave"; (1757) "writer whose works are signed by another"; (1759) adjectival use "of the black race"; (1812) "hard worker or exploited person" to work like a negro; (1857) "Creole, bad French" to speak negro, petit nègre; (1922) "African" negro art.