mestize

plural mestizes

1. archaicgender neutralArchaic or gender-neutral form of mestizo.

   A Mestize therefore in our islands is, I suppose, the Quinteron of the Spaniards.

   1819, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies, page 18

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   A light complexion is accompanied with to a Terceron, who is called by some a red or fair hair, a dark one with black hair, Morisco, or Mestize.

   1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge

   A Black Hamite and a Zamba - A White Man and a Mulatto – An Asiatic Indian and a European - American Mestize and a European Carribean and Zambi - Mestize and a Native American - Mulatto and a Carribean - Terceroon and a White Man […]

   1894, Joseph Elias Hayne, The Black Man: Or, The Natural History of the Hametic Race, page 13

   Nonetheless, the concept of a 'mestize' being one-half American, one-fourth European, and one-fourth African was probably not borrowed from Spanish usage. It may reflect the fact that Americans in Jamaica were[…]

   1993 March, Jack D. Forbes, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 232

   Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race.

   2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84