Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The offspring of a white person and a quadroon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
métis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
metis . (person of mixed parentage)
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Examples
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She was two or three shades lighter than the man, and had the peculiar brown, kinky hair, straight, flat nose, and speckled, gray eyes which mark the metif.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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She was two or three shades lighter than the man, and had the peculiar brown, kinky hair, straight, flat nose, and speckled, gray eyes which mark the metif.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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At the sound of her master's voice the metif woman fell to the ground as if struck by a Minie-ball.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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On these a number of loose planks were placed, and on the planks lay the bodies of the metif woman and her child.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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On these a number of loose planks were placed, and on the planks lay the bodies of the metif woman and her child.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The child of a white man by a mulatto woman was called a quarteroon, -- the second degree; from a white father and a quarteroon mother was born the male tierceroon, -- the third degree; the union of a white man with a female tierceroon produced the metif, -- the fourth degree of color.
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These, with the resident metif population of above 300 souls, and the adjacent Indian tribes, constitute the world -- the little isolated world -- in which we must move for six months to come.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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I amused myself a few days, by keeping minutes of the visits of the mixed Indian and metif multitude.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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New Year's day here, as among the metif, and also the pure descendants of the ancient French of Normandy in Michigan, is a day of friendly visiting from house to house, and cordial congratulations, with refreshments spread on the board for all.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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He has spent life, it seems, knocking about trading posts, in the Indian country, being married, has metif children, and speaks the Chippewa tongue fluently -- I do not know how accurately.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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