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Mixed-blood   /mɪkst-bləd/   Listen
Mixed-blood

noun
1.
A person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races.





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"Mixed-blood" Quotes from Famous Books



... ex-Senator Alvord's office as he had planned. There was another election in the fall and John Levine was returned to Congress, this time almost without a struggle. So many of the voters of the community were profiting by the alienating of the mixed-blood pines that it would have been blatant hypocrisy on the part of Republicans as well as Democrats to have opposed him. In fact, thanks to Levine, the town had entered on a period of unprecedented prosperity. The college itself had purchased ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... tropics. There do not seem to be any race distinctions where Cubans alone are concerned. The African and those of mixed blood mingle freely together; and in the insurgent army officers of all ranks were chosen from the pure or mixed-blood African as freely as from others. The Cuban colored people seem to be exceptionally intelligent and energetic, and have a high reputation as brave soldiers. The typical Cuban does not belong to the coast ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer


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