OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 102 Candidus, þurhhwit. Subalbus, healfhwit.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 9^v There is another kynde of Pus..which is apparauntly founde in great vlcers beginning to heale, which is thinne, half white, and as it were vnctuouse, not vnlike the white fattines of oile.

1654 tr. Xenophon Cyrus le Grand viii. iv. 189 Cyrus himselfe..clad in a purple cassocke halfe white (for none else may weare a garment halfe white).

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 458 Sleasy, half White, and course Hessen Linen.

1719 Daily Courant 26 Nov. Lost on Monday last..a very little Spaniel Bitch..the Tip of her Tail White, her Fore Feet half White.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIV. at Muscicapa Senegal Fly-catcher. This is variegated; eye-brows white; outmost tail-feathers half-white.

1890 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 17 235 The half white ones are as old as the others.

2007 C. De Wolf tr. R. Akutagawa Mandarins (e-book ed.) A smile flitting briefly across lips draped with a half-white mustache.

1599 tr. Briefe Relation what is hapned since August 1598 24 O thou God of hoasts, vouchsafe mercifully to beholde thy countrie, and defend the same..against these halfe white Moores.

1693 tr. Memorable Accidents 83 We supposed some Women had inveigled them away, who are great Lovers of Dutch-men, and we saw several Children half white.

1850 Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 22 Feb. John Cushion was a half white man of the Tuscarora tribe.

1871 Jrnl. House of Representatives Ohio 67 App. 17 His wife is three-fourths white, being the daughter of a white man..with a mulatto, or half-white woman.

1938 R. Wright Lawd Today! i. xii, in Wks. (1991) I. 103 A gold digger, that's all... A halfwhite broad like that is hard as hell to manage.

2016 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 20 Sept. a11 The half-white son of a Kenyan,..Mr. Obama shattered the image of what an American president could be.

1794 Caledonian Mercury 1 Mar. (advt.) Prices of Bleaching Plain Linen, yard-wide, or under, wove in a..Damask,—at 5d. [per yard]​ and Half Whites, if so marked, at 2d.

1904 Monthly Consular Rep. (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) Apr. 206 Cotton blankets.., in whites, half whites, grays, and scarlets.., are very much in demand.

1922 Textile Feb. 34/2 We do a good deal of bleaching, both half whites and full whites.

1988 W. S. Di Piero in New Criterion Reader 114/1 A portrait of his mother from 1906, in grays and half-whites.

1836 D. Wheeler Jrnl. 24 Jan. in Extracts Lett. & Jrnl. (1838) III. 51 A prospect of holding another public meeting with the foreigners and half-whites in the Mariners' Chapel, has at intervals crossed my mind.

1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 26 Foreigners and the better class of natives, and ‘half whites’ in carriages.

1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Oct. 8/3 In this boat's crew..was Charlie Diamond... He was a Bonin island half-white and is well known to old time sealers.

1983 J. Matthews Park (1989) 77 We going to stay in Fairways and all those half-whites will have to call me Mrs Oliphant because we got a home just like them!

2004 C. Heywood Hist. South Afr. Lit. 29 The voice of the Khoisan community has expanded since the seventeenth century through assimilation of former slaves, whites, and half-whites.