The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackmoor \Black"moor\, n. See Blackamoor.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of blackamoor English)
Wikipedia
Blackmoor is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting generally associated with the game Dungeons & Dragons. It originated in the early 1970s as the personal setting of Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, first as a setting for Arneson's miniature wargames, then as an early testing ground for what would become D&D.
Blackmoor is a supplementary rulebook (product designation TSR 2004) of the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game written by Dave Arneson (with a foreword by Gary Gygax).
Usage examples of "blackmoor".
Dane Blackmoor-world-renowned sculptor, self-professed scoundrel, and the man I'd almost fallen in love with-had abruptly left the country, saving me the protracted pain of one of those energy-sapping, ego-battering relationships I'd been majoring in since college.
I scanned the opening sentence- "Sculptor Dane Blackmoor has had more comebacks than an alley cat has lives.
But, of course, it was just Blackmoor, in a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up, paler and thinner, his eyes a little sad.
In an even weaker moment, I considered dialing the nuntber of every hotel in Paris-but experience had taught me Dane Blackmoor wouldn't be easy to find.
This man I loved, Dane Blackmoor, said it could make me took like snarling Medusa or a pre-Raphaelite Ophelia, depending on my level of crankiness on any given day.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: THE PLOT In the Vale of Blackmoor in rural Wessex lives a teenage girl, Tess Durbeyfield, her six younger sisters and brothers, and her parents, John and Joan.
The Vale of Froom is also known as the Valley of the Big Dairies, in contrast to the Vale of Blackmoor, which is nicknamed the Vale of Small Dairies.
Small, swampy Blackmoor Vale, the place where Tess was born and raised, is always described in narrow, confining terms.
The "big" Vale of Froom, as we shall see, is more fertile than Blackmoor, more expansive, and more a part of the larger world.
When I flew to Blackmoor Vale, Whence the green-gowned faeries hail, Roosting near them I could hear them Speak of queenly Nature's ways, Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
The battle had raged from Blackmoor, out over Great Bay, down to the Wild Coast, ending in a steaming, boiling sea from which only Lichis had emerged.
Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the AEmilian--some from farthest south, Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, 70 Meroe, Nilotic isle, and, more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea.
Skirting the bogs of Blackmoor, the rail line ran along the shore for some miles before turning inland a final time.