A person of black African ancestry who has a light or albino complexion.
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释义 | the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > light-skinned (9) white Negro1766 A person of black African ancestry who has a light or albino complexion. yellowskin1831 A light-skinned black person. Cf. yellow, adj. 4b. Now chiefly in African-American usage. yellow1873 U.S. A black or mixed-race person having light brown skin; a light-skinned black person. Now considered offensive outside of black usage. pink toe1930 a white woman, or a light-skinned black woman (cf. sense A. 10); frequently in plural. light-skin1935 (A name for) a black or other non-white person who has pale or relatively pale skin. Potentially offensive. peola1938 A light-skinned black person, esp. a girl or young woman. play-white1952 (in the apartheid era) a black or Coloured (coloured, adj. 3d) person who can pass as a white person. redbone1983 slang (chiefly in African-American usage). A black person (esp. a woman) having light-coloured, reddish-tinted skin. Also as adj. (attributive). Cf… lightie1991 Chiefly in British Afro-Caribbean usage: (a name for) a black person who has pale or relatively pale skin; (also) a person of mixed race. Potentially… |
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