单词 | mameluco |
释义 | mamelucon. A person who has one Brazilian Indian and one white parent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian mestizo1598 topass1680 half-breed1760 Paulist1772 bois brûlé1805 mameluco1809 metis1816 Paulista1817 mestino1842 ladino1877 redbone1890 mestizaje1943 cholo1959 1809 R. Southey Let. 16 Nov. in Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 177 That mulish obliquity of nature which has been represented by the Jesuits as characterising the Mamalucos. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. i. 35 (note) Mameluco denotes the offspring of White with Indian; Mulatto, that of White with Negro. 1874 R. F. Burton in A. Tootal tr. J. von Staden Captivity Hans Stade xv. 45 Mamalucco, meaning the offspring of a white man by an Indian woman, is now obsolete in Sao Paulo, where Caboclo has taken its place. 1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man xiii. 545 The Mamelucos or Paulists of the province of Sao Paulo (Brazil), European and Indian half-breeds. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands ii. §1. 52 A confused intermixture of races in which we may distinguish as the most characteristic products the mulatto, the mameluco or curiboca, and the cafuso. 1994 J. Updike Brazil xxvi. 211 She and Tristão began to come upon farms—single low whitewashed, red-roofed ranchos where a single couple, a gaunt mameluco in baggy peon's clothes..kept house with their chickens and pigs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1809 |
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