| 单词 | of mixed blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof mixed blood 1. Descent involving two or more different races or ethnic groups. Usually of mixed blood. 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 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 244 About one half of the Cherokee nation are of mixed blood by intermarriages with the white people. 1845 J. H. Ingraham Norman x. 37 ‘Of what nature is your secretary?’ he asked, looking at my father. ‘Of mixed blood.’ 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans i. 23 If a Scottish or Irish clan is of ‘mixed blood’, what likelihood is there of purity of descent among the millions that make up the population of any great modern nation? 1993 A. May Passionate Pilgrim iv. 81 They passed a law decreeing that women of mixed blood could wear only huipals, Indian dresses. < as lemmas |
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