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Half-caste

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of mixed racial descent. derogatory, not-comparable

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A person of mixed racial descent. derogatory

    "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."

  2. 2
    an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different racial groups or cultures wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From half- + caste.

Etymology 2

From half- + caste.

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