| 单词 | half-castism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈhalf-castism 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. < as lemmas |
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