| 单词 | quarter-caste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-caste quarter-caste n. and adj. (a) n. a person of mixed ancestry who is a quarter from one descent and three-quarters from another, spec. (Australian and New Zealand) a person who is a quarter Australian Aboriginal or Maori and three-quarters white; (b) adj. relating to or designating such a person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 1859 E. Money Wife & Ward ix. 133 She was only a quarter-caste,—or, in other words, was three parts English, and only one native. 1876 Littell's Living Age 7 Oct. 9/1 Julia..was a West-Indian creole (not a half or quarter caste, that is, but a pure white, island born). 1941 Argus (Melbourne) Week-end Mag. 15 Nov. 1/3 Slang applied to the aborigines occurs..only in the Far North, where the natives are commonly seen... Half-castes are ‘halfies’, and quarter-castes ‘creamies’. 1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. i. 6 Being up the duff to a young quarter-caste..was no joke. 1952 R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia x. 51 The crew with the exception of the quartercaste mate were all Maori. 1979 Church Times 9 Mar. 4/3 Bishop Reeves is a ‘quarter-caste’ Maori and a graduate of St. Peter's College, Oxford. 2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 7 July 19 My father, Barry, is half-caste, so I suppose I am a quarter-caste. < as lemmas |
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