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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Nationality & race
mestizomes‧ti‧zo /meˈstiːzəʊ $ -zoʊ/ noun (plural mestizos) [countable] SANsomeone who has one Hispanic parent and one Native American parent
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mestizo• I am a mestizo, a cholo.• Some maquilas were established in indigenous communities, others among mestizos.• That is an insult for mestizos, what you would call a half-breed.• He was waitin' fur us at the airport, a mean-faced little mestizo dressed in a pale blue suit.• So mestizo culture - reluctant to let go of tradition - created its own deity to host the yearly handout.• But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself.• A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds, so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him.• The mestizos, mulattoes, and whites were brutally murdered as they slept.
Origin mestizo (1500-1600) Spanish mestizo “mixed”
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