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UK
/mɛstˈɪzəʊ/
]
[ US /mɛˈstizoʊ/ ]
[ US /mɛˈstizoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
How To Use mestizo In A Sentence
- In the meantime, the young mestizoes were discoursing with him in the brilliant saloons of the Jew, and the crowd of guests thronged around The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
- Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- MEXICO CITY -- The historical election of the first "mestizo" to the White House would go a long way toward redeeming the promise of the United States in the eyes of the world, particularly after the truly ruinous Bush tenure. Nathan Gardels: Global Reactions to Obama Victory from Moscow to Beijing to Muslim World
- The white nuns who run the leprosarium insist that the entire staff wear rubber gloves when dealing with the mestizo patients.
- The proprietor, a sloe-eyed mestizo named Julio, set them up with local nut liqueurs and moonshine pinga.
- Among mestizos and other indigenous peoples, weddings are lavish affairs.
- But like most mestizo traders and rubber tappers of the Vaupés, he had adopted native ways, including the use of coca, or patu as he called it in Cubeo. One River
- In the Tropic photo their physical appearance though not necessarily their actual lineage could be described as more 'mestizo', in contrast to a more Afro-Latino look. Castro, Cuba, the Americas: next door, yet so far away
- Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
- On the other hand, it is important to keep in mind that Mexican-Americans are mestizas and mestizos, victims of various colonization processes.