单词 | métisse |
释义 | métissen. A woman of mixed descent, esp. one of European and African or American Indian origin. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian > woman mestiza1589 métisse1895 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Métisse. 1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. iii. i. 196 Across the way a métisse with long and lovely legs lay..reading a glossy woman's paper. 1961 E. Bruton King Diamond vi. 87 ‘She's not African. Not entirely anyway... She's a metisse.’..‘I know he wouldn't have gone for an African.’ ‘He didn't exactly. She's half and half.’ 1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Oct. a18/4 He was the son of the French Canadian Jean-Baptiste Riel and his wife, the Franco-Chipewyan Métisse Marguerite. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895 |
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