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mestiza

[ me-stee-zuh, mi- ]

noun

  1. a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed Indigenous and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed Indigenous and foreign descent. mestizo ( def ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mestiza1

From Spanish
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Example Sentences

The eight works on view depict figures — mostly women who look vaguely mestiza — in intimate settings, either indoors or in expansive natural landscapes.

But she was a fair-skinned mestiza, a mix of Spanish and Indian.

I need a sequined dress, or at the very least, regular mestiza clothes.

And it fell to pass that, though he had always been an immune to feminine blandishments, the tall sergeant-major was seen frequently strolling between the nipa houses with the mestiza girl.

He had also been trained to agricultural pursuits, and at 20 he married the mestiza daughter of an Englishman and Maori woman, who had presented him with a son.

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