half-English
Britishadjective
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They saw some clips of me online and realised I was half-English.
From BBC
Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.
From Washington Post
Fariba is 41, and half-Iranian, half-English.
From BBC
Las Cafeteras, a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, recorded a half-English, half-Spanish version of Ray Charles’s “Georgia On My Mind” — a rendition intended to reflect the rising tide of Black and Latino voters in the state.
From New York Times
As a young man, straddling these two cultures of being half-Malaysian and half-English, I was always confused about who I was and what culture I represented.
From New York Times
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