Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person of mixed racial ancestry.
  • noun A person of mixed Native American and French-Canadian ancestry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as mestizo.
  • noun In the Dominion of Canada, a half-breed of French and Indian parentage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
  • Local, U. S. The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Canadian French, from Old French metis, of mixed race, from Late Latin mixtīcius, mixed; see mestizo.]

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