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- noun Plural form of
mestizo .
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Examples
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And the captain was hauled back into the bed, lifted up by Lancer and two grimy mestizos from the truck's cab.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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And the captain was hauled back into the bed, lifted up by Lancer and two grimy mestizos from the truck's cab.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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In the United States, "La Razza" is sometimes used to denote people of Chicano and mestizo descent as well as other Latin American mestizos who share Native American heritage.
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As a rule the Tsotsiles and Tseltales call the mestizos kaxlan (not a nice word as a rule), the US and Canadian "people from up north", Europeans, "people from the other side" and the Asians "people from the other world".
Larrainza 2009
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As a rule the Tsotsiles and Tseltales call the mestizos kaxlan (not a nice word as a rule), the US and Canadian "people from up north", Europeans, "people from the other side" and the Asians "people from the other world".
Larrainza 2009
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As a rule the Tsotsiles and Tseltales call the mestizos kaxlan (not a nice word as a rule), the US and Canadian "people from up north", Europeans, "people from the other side" and the Asians "people from the other world".
Larrainza 2009
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As a rule the Tsotsiles and Tseltales call the mestizos kaxlan (not a nice word as a rule), the US and Canadian "people from up north", Europeans, "people from the other side" and the Asians "people from the other world".
Larrainza 2009
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The offsprings of these are called mestizos or grades, whose size and egg production almost equal those of the purebred parents.
Chapter 15 1992
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In either case the Indios blancos would be mestizos, that is to say, children of an Indian woman and a white man.
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In either case the Indios blancos would be mestizos, that is to say, children of an Indian woman and a white man.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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In Mexico, for example, most people also think of themselves as mestizos, a term that emerged during the colonial period to explain the blend of ethnicities — especially between Indigenous peoples and the Spanish colonizers.
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America Emiliano Rodríguez Mega 2023
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