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单词 métisse
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métissen.

Brit. /meɪˈtiːs/, /ˈmeɪtiːs/, U.S. /meɪˈtis/
Forms: 1800s– métisse, 1900s– metisse.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French métisse.
Etymology: < French métisse (1740), use as noun of métisse , feminine of métis , adjective (see metis n.).Rare in Canadian English, though current in Canadian French.
A woman of mixed descent, esp. one of European and African or American Indian origin.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian > woman
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Métisse.
1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. iii. i. 196 Across the way a métisse with long and lovely legs lay..reading a glossy woman's paper.
1961 E. Bruton King Diamond vi. 87 ‘She's not African. Not entirely anyway... She's a metisse.’..‘I know he wouldn't have gone for an African.’ ‘He didn't exactly. She's half and half.’
1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Oct. a18/4 He was the son of the French Canadian Jean-Baptiste Riel and his wife, the Franco-Chipewyan Métisse Marguerite.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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