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‖ mestizo|mɛˈstiːzəʊ|
Forms: 6 mastizo, 6–7 mestico, 7 mastiso, mestiso, -tisa, mostesa, musteese, -tezo, mestick, 7–8 mestise, mostese, 7–9 mestize, 8 mestigo, mestito, mustice, -tizo, 6– mestizo.
[Sp. mestizo, Pg. mestiço, = Pr. mestis, F. métis:—popular L. type mixtīcius, f. L. mixt-us, pa. pple. of miscēre to mix.]
a. A Spanish or Portuguese half-caste; now chiefly, the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. Also applied to other persons of mixed blood, or to a Central or South American Indian who has adopted European culture.
In the occasional application to a Portuguese half-caste, it should now have the Pg. spelling mestiço.
c1588Pretty in Hakluyt's Voy. (1600) III. 814 A Mestizo is one which hath a Spaniard to his father and an Indian to his mother. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 486 The Portugalls many of them are married with Indian women, and their posteritie are called Mesticos. a1616Hakluyt Divers Voy. App. (1850) 167 Worsted stockings knit which are worn of the mastizoes. 1678in Notes & Extracts Rec. Fort St. George 1. (1871) 88 (Y.) Europeans, Musteeses, and Topasees. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 57 Beyond the Outworks live a few Portugals Mustezos or Misteradoes. 1704Collect. Voy. & Trav. III. 76/1 The Mestito's or Mongrel Breed of a Spanish Man and Indian Woman. 1782H. Walpole To Mason 8 July Lett. (1858) VIII. 251 Even demigods have intermarried till their race are become downright mestises. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man v. (1845) 21 What gives these Mestizos a peculiarly striking appearance is the excessively long hair of the head. 1875F. Jagor Trav. Philippines 290 Creoles and mestizes are for the most part too idle even to keep sheep. 1878C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportman's Gloss. p. vii/2 Mestizo (Sp.), a cross between an Indian and a negro. 1909Webster Mestizo... In Spanish America and the Philippines, a person of mixed blood; esp., the offspring of a European or person of European stock and an (East) Indian, Negro, Malay, or other person of dark, non-European stock; often specif., Phil. I., a person of Chinese and native blood. 1930R. Macaulay Staying with Relations vi. §1. 75 They [sc. the Spaniards] go mestizo sooner or later, and are the better for it; a little Indian blood gingers them up. 1941R. Humphreys Latin Amer. 6 In Brazil..half the population is white, but Indians predominate in the interior, mestizos in the north, and the negro element is strong in Bahia. 1959[see Cholo, cholo]. 1962N. Maxwell Witch-Doctor's Apprentice v. 52 Cholo means mestizo, half-breed. Seems it's more polite to call a man half-breed than an Indian. 1967Webster, Mestizo... 2: a completely acculturated Central or So. American Indian. 1969Time 14 July 14/2 Mestizo, person of mixed Spanish and Indian blood, as are most Mexican Americans. 1973Nat. Geographic May 642/1 Juan himself is a mestizo, part Indian, part Spanish. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 824/3 In some countries—i.e., Ecuador—the word has acquired social and cultural connotations; a pure-blooded Indian who has adopted European dress and customs is called a mestizo (or cholo).
b. attrib., as mestizo labourer, mestizo-lad, mestizo town, etc.; mestizo-wool, South American wool from mixed breeds of sheep (Funk's Stand. Dict.).
1617Cocks in Lett. E. Ind. Comp. (1901) V. 15 There came a Mestisa Indian to me.
1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 136 Pablo Sevallos the mestizo lad. 1970L. Grebler et al. Mexican-Amer. People xiv. 322 A leisured ‘Spanish’ hidalgia and a mass of mestizo and Indian laborers.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 10 A poor Seaman had got a pretty Mustice Wife.
1887L. Oliphant Episodes (ed. 4) vi. 118 There was absolutely nothing to see in the sleepy little mestizo town. |