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  • noun Plural form of halfbreed.

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Examples

  • They are halfbreeds and they get treated as such, especially when a court is focused on the issue of profit.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • We Arts and Humanities/soft social science halfbreeds are kept away from numbers, for our own safety.

    Still hasn't said sorry... Jeff 2009

  • Like a lot of Indians or halfbreeds, Gayla could be any age at all.

    Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008

  • There isnt a lot of magic in the story at all, with just one race of people halfbreeds able to do much magically..and this is mostly mind related.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Jeff C 2007

  • There isnt a lot of magic in the story at all, with just one race of people halfbreeds able to do much magically..and this is mostly mind related.

    Review: Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley Jeff C 2007

  • O'Donoghue of Red River 'unpleasantness' fame, was, during the afternoon, taken prisoner by halfbreeds and sent to Fort Pembina.

    The Fenian Invasion of 1871 Trish Short Lewis 2005

  • Governor Jayne was militantly pushing a bill in the legislature to extend citizenship to halfbreeds who could read and write.

    The Fenian Invasion of 1871 Trish Short Lewis 2005

  • But from Manitoba papers and from information received from other sources, these twenty so-called Fenians, together with a less number of French halfbreeds, created alarm and confusion throughout the whole province of Manitoba, causing Lieut.

    The Fenian Invasion of 1871 Trish Short Lewis 2005

  • So I told them that since Andrew was fussy, it'd probably be best that we didn't go to Olive Garden with them where they would have their usual "Who Can Make The Biggest Salad?" contest and hoot and holler and act like mentally challenged halfbreeds in the middle of Olive Garden.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2002

  • "And he would grumble about miscegenation and halfbreeds as long as he lived."

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

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