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单词 métissage
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métissagen.

Brit. /ˌmeɪtiːˈsɑːʒ/, /meɪˈtiːsɑːʒ/, /ˈmeɪtiːsɑːʒ/, U.S. /ˌmeɪˌtiˈsɑʒ/, /meɪˈtisɑʒ/, /ˈmeɪˌtisɑʒ/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French métissage.
Etymology: < French métissage (1837) < métis metis n. + -age -age suffix.
Mixing of or reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups, or between individuals belonging to different racial or ethnic groups; miscegenation. Also figurative.
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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).
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