Hence, more generally: any person of mixed racial origin. Cf. metis, n. 1.

A person of mixed black and Portuguese descent; often applied to a soldier, or a ship's scavenger or bath-attendant, who is of this class.

depreciative and offensive. A person who is descended from parents or ancestors of differing ethnic origin; orig. and esp., in U.S., applied to the…

= Paulista, n.

An American Indian of mixed descent, esp. one of French and Indian extraction.

A person who has one Brazilian Indian and one white parent.

A person of mixed descent. Canadian. Usually with capital initial. A person having mixed white (esp. French Canadian or Scottish) and native Canadian…

(a) A person of mixed Portuguese and Brazilian Indian descent, esp. one who was among the explorers or settlers of the hinterlands of southern…

A spurious form of mestizo, n. in W. T. Brande Dict. Sci. Lit. & Arts (1842), and in later dictionaries. (Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.…

In Central America, a mestizo or a white person. Also attributive or as adj.

regional (chiefly southern). A person of mixed racial descent, spec. one believed to have a degree of North American Indian ancestry and regarded…

Reproduction between and cultural intermixing of Spanish and indigenous American people (originally in Mexico, and subsequently also in other parts…

= mestizo, n.