brass ankles

noun

A triracial isolate group that developed in colonial South Carolina.

Meanings

brass ankles1

noun
  1. pluralplural of brass ankle

Brass Ankles2

nounBrass Ankles pl (plural only)
  1. historicalpluralplural onlyanthropologyA triracial isolate group that developed in colonial South Carolina.
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