mixed-raceadj.
/ˌmɪks(t)ˈreɪs/, U.S. /ˌmɪks(t)ˈreɪs/ 1. Consisting of or involving people of different ethnicities.
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1860 Bury & Norwich Post 10 Apr. (heading) American view of mixed-race marriage.
1873 Daily State Jrnl. (Richmond, Va.) 4 Mar. (Evening ed.) We suppose the present incumbents will prefer to resign their portfolios to the risk of sharing the fate of the two colonels—a usual concomitant of mixed-race revolutions.
1924 P. Grainger Let. 14 Feb. in All-round Man (1994) 63 He even goes into the South, singing to big mixed-race audiences & packed New York's largest hall recently.
1995 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 39 438 Blacks who live in suburban and mixed-race neighborhoods.
2000 Marie Claire July 93/1 I'd never had a mixed-race relationship before.
2. Of a person: having parents or ancestors of different ethnic backgrounds. Also: of or relating to such people.Although the term mixed-race is disliked and considered offensive by some people, it is currently the most widely used and readily intelligible term for people descended from parents or ancestors of different ethnic backgrounds.
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1883 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. 313 In the larger towns..are found, in considerable numbers, English residents and their mixed-race descendants, called Eurasians.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. (Late City Final ed.) 12 The mixed-race children of American servicemen and Vietnamese women.
1999 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 24 May 1 b Why not start a national magazine as a way to share the mixed-race experience?
2002 J. Mercurio Bodies (2003) 6 Rich is mixed race with light brown skin and pale eyes, tall with wide shoulders and hair razored to stubble.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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