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‖ mestiza|mɛˈstiːzə|
Also 7 mestisa, mus-, mostesa.
[Sp., fem. of mestizo.]
A woman of the mestizo race. Also attrib.
c1582M. Philips in Hakluyt's Voy. (1600) III. 482 Paul Horsewell is maried to a Mestisa, as they name those whose fathers were Spaniards, and their mothers Indians. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 388 Mr. Fitz-Gerald had in this time gotten a Spanish Mustesa Woman to Wife. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 121 The Mestiza, or Negro women, or the coloured women as they are called here [Panama]. 1851MacMicking Recoll. Manilla 61 The Mestiza girls being frequently good-looking. 1890Pall Mall G. 5 Aug. 2/1 The olive-skinned mestizas. |