单词 | métissage |
释义 | métissagen. Mixing of or reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups, or between individuals belonging to different racial or ethnic groups; miscegenation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] mongrelism1598 mixture1634 half-breed1775 half-caste1798 mixed blood1817 Eurasianism1833 mongrelity1859 mulism1861 miscegenation1863 miscegenesis1880 miscegeny1887 métissage1891 half-castism1896 1891 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 20 239 In Europe, and in most parts of the world, where anthropological enquiries have been pursued, the prevalence of métissage, or the crossing of races, constantly tends to complicate the investigations and to obscure and confuse the results. 1892 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 21 183 The materials for studying this question of métissage, as the French call it, are too scanty as yet to enable us to speak with confidence. 1959 Times 13 Aug. 9/7 He is, too, on historical grounds, a firm believer in the value of métissage—the cross-fertilization of civilizations. 1972 Guardian 8 July 9/1 Léopold Senghor, President of Sénégal,..is a great believer in the virtues of métissage, or racial mixture. 1982 D. Dunn Europa's Lover vi, in Sel. Poems (1986) 217 Two sit in a café in a French provincial town Served by a descendant of métissage in Guadeloupe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1891 |
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