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Métisse

American

[mey-tees] / meɪˈtis /

Also metisse

noun

Canadian. a woman or girl of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the Métis Nation, recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples.

Sara Riel's linguistic talents and her status as a Métisse made her welcome among the Gray Nuns of the 19th century.
métisse, any woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry.

adjective

Canadian. being a Métisse.
métisse, being a woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry.

She is métisse, the child of a French man and a Congolese woman.

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Inflected Forms

noun

Métisses

plural

Etymology

Origin of Métisse

First recorded in 1890–95; from French; feminine of Métis ( def. )

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