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Half-caste   /hæf-kæst/   Listen
Half-caste

noun
1.
An offensive term for the offspring of parents of different races or cultures.






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"Half-caste" Quotes from Famous Books



... hired at the rate of two to three dollars per mensem, and gangs would easily be collected if one of the chiefs were placed in command. No sum of money will buy a free-born Mpongwe, and the sale is forbidden by the laws of the land. A half-caste would fetch one hundred dollars; a wild "nigger" near the river costs from thirty to thirty-five dollars; the same may be bought in the Apinji country for four dollars' worth of assorted goods, the "bundle- trade" as it is called; but there is the imminent risk of the chattel's running away. ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Half-caste" :   depreciation, disparagement, derogation, mixed-blood, half-breed



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