half-caste
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person of mixed racial descent.
— AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
形容词 adj.
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Of mixed racial descent.
— It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
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English half-
English caste
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From half- + caste.
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