Definition of "Moors"

[I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206