miscegenation

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Inured as she was to the horrors of gastronomic miscegenation, the waitress -- an old girl -- recoiled at this.

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  1. noun The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
  2. noun Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
  3. noun A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule” (Don McLeese).

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  • However, the analyses of the album's soul covers, "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Man-Do Right Woman", as commentaries on racial and musical miscegenation are a bit far-fetched, assuming a reverence (not to mention a degree of white liberal guilt) that Parsons, by most accounts, lacked. —  PopMatters
  • Both novels dwelt upon exoticism and miscegenation, and the former had seemed to me when I first read it to contain a hint of prescience about the burgeoning Islamist loathing for America. —  Slate Magazine
  • They cling to a closed-minded "tradition" that is no more consistent with American's principles of equality and individual dignity than those who defended segregation, miscegenation, and the view that a woman's place is in the home rather than in the voting booth. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • He's the product of what used to be called miscegenation, a scenario that may still be more terrifying than a teen daughter's pregnancy in many American households. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • But Abel's real issue is with miscegenation, the co-mingling of black and white DNA, and it probably doesn't help that Chris is as white as they come, having attended Berkeley on, of all things, a lacrosse scholarship. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. Latin miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots + genus, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -ation.

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  1. Irreg. from Latin miscere, mix, + genus, race, + -ation.
 

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