单词 | eurafrican |
释义 | Eurafricanadj.n. 1. Cultural Anthropology. Designation of a dark-skinned race which inhabited regions on both sides of the Mediterranean. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective] Ligurian1632 Mediterranean1876 Eurafrican1890 Alpine1894 Armenoid1894 Nordic1898 Eurasiatic1901 Veddoid1956 1890 D. G. Brinton Races & Peoples iv. 105 The white race is..an African race. I have calculated..the area of its control of the three continents... These figures vindicate for the race the title I have given it—Eurafrican. 1899 A. H. Keane Man Past & Pres. 444 The right of citizenship is to be withdrawn from such time-honoured names as ‘Hamitic’, ‘Semitic’..in favour of ‘Mediterranean’, ‘Eurafrican’, and other upstarts. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 217/1 Whether this type is more conveniently designated by the word Iberian, or by some other name (‘Eur-african’, ‘Mediterranean’, &c.). 1928 V. G. Childe Most Anc. East ii. 39 The so-called Eurafrican, Mediterranean, or Brown race. 2. Pertaining to or involving both Europe and Africa, or their peoples together. ΚΠ 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1957 Time 18 Feb. 18/2 Pineau said..‘[France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole.’ 1958 Economist 25 Jan. 286/2 A Eurafrican bargain [i.e. between France and Algeria]. 1962 Economist 23 June 1192/1 The ‘Eurafrican’ negotiations at Brussels. 3. In South Africa: a Coloured person (see coloured adj. 3d); designating such a person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person > in South Africa bastard1785 Baster1790 Griqua1815 Rehobothiana1867 Rehoboth Bastard1894 Griqualander1897 coloured1903 Rehobother Bastard1921 Eurafrican1922 Rehoboth1923 Rehoboth Baster1926 Rehobother1958 1922 S. G. Millin Adam's Rest ii. v. 156 Frances no longer looked as if she might be a beautiful Spaniard or Italian. She was obviously a Eurafrican. 1927 W. M. Macmillan Cape Colour Question xviii. 288 All recent restrictive legislation, designed for the ‘segregation’ of the Natives, classes the ‘Eurafricans’ with the Europeans. 1927 Times (weekly ed.) 24 Nov. 586/1 The coloured or Eurafrican workers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1890 |
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