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Eurasian, a. and n.|jʊəˈreɪʃən|
[f. Eur-ope + Asia (in sense A. 1 f. the compound Eurasia) + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Eurasia, i.e. to Europe and Asia considered as forming in reality one continent. Cf. eurasiatic.
1868Haydn Dict. Dates (ed. 13), Eurasian-plain, the great central plain of Europe and Asia.
2. Of mixed European and Asiatic (esp. Indian) parentage. (The earlier designation was East Indian.)
1844J. M. Local Sketches (Calcutta) in N. & Q. Ser. vi. XII. 177 The Eurasian Belle. 1858Calcutta Rev. XXXI. 96 East Indian subscribers to the Fund are a very superior class to the mixed Eurasian population we see around us. 1860S. Times 26 Aug. 4/2 The term Eurasian is applied to the offspring of a European father and a Hindoo or Mussulman woman in India. 1870Kaye Sepoy War II. 291 The families also of European or Eurasian merchants and traders were gathered there [at Cawnpore] in large numbers. 1881G. A. Mackay Tour Sir Ali Baba 121 The Eurasian girl is often pretty and graceful.
B. n. ‘A modern name for persons of mixt European and Indian blood’ (Col. Yule). See chee-chee.
1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 30 Eurasians, a term invented by the late Marquis of Hastings, conventionally accepted as embracing all the progeny of white fathers and Hindoo or Mahometan mothers. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 461 Eurasians (that is the mixed race of British, Portuguese, Hindoo, Malay, blood mixed in all degrees). 1880G. A. Mackay Tour Sir Ali Baba 123 The shovel-hats are surprised that the Eurasian does not become a missionary or a schoolmaster. |