Africaness

== English == === Etymology 1 === From African +‎ -ness. ==== Noun ==== Africaness (uncountable) Alternative spelling of Africanness. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== Africaness (plural Africanesses) (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