mestizo

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He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo

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  1. noun A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

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  • He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo bobbylee Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05: 26 PM EST —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • All in the room regard it in a more serious light--think the mestizo is a traitor Having come to this general conclusion, they turn towards the table, to take a last drink, before initiating action Just as they get their glasses in hand, the refectory door is once more opened; this time with a hurried violence that causes them to start, as though a bombshell had rolled into the room Facing towards it, they see it is only the negro boy, who had gone out again, re-entering. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • The best informed of all was a sturdy mestizo, a trusted foreman, who said that in a little valley called Ccllumayu, a few hours' journey down the Urubamba, there were "important ruins" which had been seen by some of Seńora Carmen's Indians. —  Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
  • The son of a Spanish mestizo--a rich merchant in one of the suburbs, who based all his hopes and joys on the boy's talent--he promised well with his roguery, and, thanks to his custom of playing tricks on every one and then hiding behind his companions, he had acquired a peculiar hump, which grew larger whenever he was laughing over his deviltry What kind of time did you have, Penitente?" —  The Reign of Greed
 

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  1. Spanish, mixed, mestizo, from Old Spanish, mixed, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = German mestize, from Spanish mestizo = Old French mestis, French métis, mixed, mongrel: see mastiff.
 

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/mɛsˈtizoʊ/
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