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UK
/mɛstˈɪzəʊ/
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[ US /mɛˈstizoʊ/ ]
[ US /mɛˈstizoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
How To Use mestizo In A Sentence
- But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
- Consider it a mestizo muumuu, except much classier and not as trashy as your woman's ilk. Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mujer Edition
- Ladinos are usually mestizos, people of mixed Amerindian and European descent.
- A study through genetics has come up with how the 'mestizo' characteristics in Latin America came about. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Science/Nature | Study unlocks Latin American past
- The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians.
- Those mestizoes who treat us as slaves, and strike us with the hand and whip, like restive mules. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
- This ardent nature awoke fire beneath the ashes; the proud bearing of the Indian suited the chivalric hidalgo; and then, weary of the Spanish nobles, in whom he no longer had confidence, disgusted with the selfish mestizoes, who wished to aggrandize themselves at his expense, he took a pleasure in turning to that primitive race, who have disputed so valiantly the American soil with the soldiers of Pizarro. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
- In what follows, I summarize the most important documents clarifying the appointive status of the berdache as he appears in the Spanish and mestizo sources on the Spanish frontiers in these centuries.
- There are seven supposed to be so. 1st, the Gachupinos, or Spaniards born in Europe; 2nd, the Creoles, that is, whites of European family born in America; 3rd, the Mestizos; 4th, the Mulattoes, descendants of whites and negroes, of whom there are few; Life in Mexico
- He's better off passing as a Latin American mestizo bobbylee Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05: 26 PM EST Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider