half-casten.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːfkɑːst/,

/ˈhɑːfkast/, U.S.

/ˈhæfˌkæst/

Forms: 1700s–1800s half-cast, 1800s– half-caste.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., caste n.

Etymology: < half adj. + caste n. With early use with reference to the Americas compare earlier half-breed n.

Now somewhat dated and usually considered offensive.

A. n.

1. A person of mixed race or descent; esp. a person with one white and one dark-skinned parent; (sometimes spec. (chiefly in India during British rule)) a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry (cf. caste n. 2).With quot. 1758 cf. caste n. 5.

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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 > [noun] > person white and Indian

half-caste1789

East Indian1801

koi-hai1816

Anglo-Indian1826

Eurasian1826

Europasian1867

Anglo?1943

1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. II. ii. viii. 274 The town consists of about an hundred families, half Spaniards or whites, and the other half casts [Sp. la otra mitad Mestizos, y Castas].

1789 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations Coromandel Coast 51 Mulattoes, or as they are called in the East Indies, half-casts.

1824 Times 6 Mar. It was..the necessary policy of the Government of India to suffer the natives and half-castes to fill such offices as they were competent to.

1884 Cent. Mag. 27 919 Much as we admired the Maori race, we were even more struck by the half-castes.

1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column (1988) iii. ii. 177 He has married some half-caste from Calcutta.

2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 10 Feb. Police have apologised for issuing a statement calling a missing woman a ‘half-caste’.

2. Mixed race or descent; the fact of being of mixed race or descent considered as an attribute or characteristic of a person or group. rare after 19th cent.

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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

1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 15 Several of them are Caffres and people of half-cast.

1825 Morning Post 1 July The present exclusion of what were called people of half caste, from the discharge of Civil duties.

1847 T. Ross tr. J. J. von Tschudi Trav. Peru v. 115 The white Creole women of Lima have a peculiar quickness in detecting a person of half-cast at the very first glance.

1859 Bath Chron. 26 May 6/3 The term ‘Eurasians’, by which the people of half-caste in India are known.

2018 Plus Company Updates (Nexis) 11 Apr. Men of half caste (half native Fijian and half other race) formerly married to Fijian women.

B. adj.

Designating a person of mixed race or descent, esp. a person with one white and one dark-skinned parent; (sometimes spec. (chiefly in India during British rule)) designating a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry. Also: relating to or characteristic of a person of mixed race or descent.

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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

1789 M. Starke Sword of Peace i. 2 Why, for our well-beloved lady hostess, dear Madam Tartar, I think we shall find her blue-cast, or half-cast complexion, the fairest part of her composition.

1793 A. Dirom Narr. Campaign in India i. i. 11 Half-cast people of Portugueze and French extraction.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 284 The daughter of a half-caste merchant.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiii. 263 No half-caste offspring of Norman or even of..Flemish mothers, but Englishmen of purely English blood.

1913 H. P. K. Skipton Our Reproach in India iii. 46 The half-caste descendants of a Bengal judge have given their name to part of a famous English seaside resort.

1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ix. 109 A half-caste singer who had a face like he was the darker brother of Elvis Presley.

2011 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 July 28 The Commonwealth Aboriginals Ordinance was in force in the Northern Territory, legislation that authorised the removal and detention of children who were ‘half caste’.

Derivatives

ˈhalf-castism n. rare (in early use) reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups; (later) the fact or experience of being mixed-race.

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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

1896 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 8/1 The problem of Half-castism which slavery has been mainly instrumental in bequeathing to South Africa.

1969 Ethiopia Observer 12 No. 4. 280/1 Declaring that ‘half-castism’ was a ‘wearisome sore’ in all the colonies.

2013 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 June 7 Iti calls himself a pre-eminent expert on half-castism and admits that with his chiselled good looks..he could pass for Italian, Arab, pretty much anything Mediterranean.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	half-caste
释义	half-casten.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːfkɑːst/, /ˈhɑːfkast/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌkæst/ Forms: 1700s–1800s half-cast, 1800s– half-caste. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., caste n. Etymology: < half adj. + caste n. With early use with reference to the Americas compare earlier half-breed n. Now somewhat dated and usually considered offensive. A. n. 1. A person of mixed race or descent; esp. a person with one white and one dark-skinned parent; (sometimes spec. (chiefly in India during British rule)) a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry (cf. caste n. 2).With quot. 1758 cf. caste n. 5. 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 > [noun] > person white and Indian half-caste1789 East Indian1801 koi-hai1816 Anglo-Indian1826 Eurasian1826 Europasian1867 Anglo?1943 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. II. ii. viii. 274 The town consists of about an hundred families, half Spaniards or whites, and the other half casts [Sp. la otra mitad Mestizos, y Castas]. 1789 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations Coromandel Coast 51 Mulattoes, or as they are called in the East Indies, half-casts. 1824 Times 6 Mar. It was..the necessary policy of the Government of India to suffer the natives and half-castes to fill such offices as they were competent to. 1884 Cent. Mag. 27 919 Much as we admired the Maori race, we were even more struck by the half-castes. 1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column (1988) iii. ii. 177 He has married some half-caste from Calcutta. 2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 10 Feb. Police have apologised for issuing a statement calling a missing woman a ‘half-caste’. 2. Mixed race or descent; the fact of being of mixed race or descent considered as an attribute or characteristic of a person or group. rare after 19th cent. 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 1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 15 Several of them are Caffres and people of half-cast. 1825 Morning Post 1 July The present exclusion of what were called people of half caste, from the discharge of Civil duties. 1847 T. Ross tr. J. J. von Tschudi Trav. Peru v. 115 The white Creole women of Lima have a peculiar quickness in detecting a person of half-cast at the very first glance. 1859 Bath Chron. 26 May 6/3 The term ‘Eurasians’, by which the people of half-caste in India are known. 2018 Plus Company Updates (Nexis) 11 Apr. Men of half caste (half native Fijian and half other race) formerly married to Fijian women. B. adj. Designating a person of mixed race or descent, esp. a person with one white and one dark-skinned parent; (sometimes spec. (chiefly in India during British rule)) designating a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry. Also: relating to or characteristic of a person of mixed race or descent. ΘΚΠ 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 1789 M. Starke Sword of Peace i. 2 Why, for our well-beloved lady hostess, dear Madam Tartar, I think we shall find her blue-cast, or half-cast complexion, the fairest part of her composition. 1793 A. Dirom Narr. Campaign in India i. i. 11 Half-cast people of Portugueze and French extraction. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 284 The daughter of a half-caste merchant. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiii. 263 No half-caste offspring of Norman or even of..Flemish mothers, but Englishmen of purely English blood. 1913 H. P. K. Skipton Our Reproach in India iii. 46 The half-caste descendants of a Bengal judge have given their name to part of a famous English seaside resort. 1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ix. 109 A half-caste singer who had a face like he was the darker brother of Elvis Presley. 2011 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 July 28 The Commonwealth Aboriginals Ordinance was in force in the Northern Territory, legislation that authorised the removal and detention of children who were ‘half caste’. Derivatives ˈhalf-castism n. rare (in early use) reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups; (later) the fact or experience of being mixed-race. 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 1896 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 8/1 The problem of Half-castism which slavery has been mainly instrumental in bequeathing to South Africa. 1969 Ethiopia Observer 12 No. 4. 280/1 Declaring that ‘half-castism’ was a ‘wearisome sore’ in all the colonies. 2013 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 June 7 Iti calls himself a pre-eminent expert on half-castism and admits that with his chiselled good looks..he could pass for Italian, Arab, pretty much anything Mediterranean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.adj.1758
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