DCHP-2
half-breed † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
a person of mixed Indian and white ancestry.
See also: half-Indian ((n.)) half-white Metis mixed-blood country-born (meaning 1)
- 1815 (1940) Article of Agreement entered into between the Half-Breed Indians of the Indian Territory on the one part and the Honorable Hudson's Bay Company on the other. . . .
- 1862 In this country, in fact, the name applies to all who have Indian blood in greater or less degree. This is the general acception of the term, and, in this sense nine-tenths or more of the civilised people of Rupert's Land are "Half breeds."
- 1903 I am married to a half-breed and have three ornery looking, copper-colored brats.
- 1962 "Ari-stock-rats," sometimes "moccasin aristocracy," is a term used to designate the half-breeds (or Metis) which they prefer being called.
2 n.
See 1920 quote.
- 1842 Their number may be on an average, about forty-five souls, of these eight are white men, the remainder half-breed Esquimeaux.
- 1920 In the Home we have only one pure Eskimo, a few half-breeds (Indian and Eskimo), and the remainder are of English descent.
- 1815 (1940) Article of Agreement entered into between the Half-Breed Indians of the Indian Territory on the one part and the Honorable Hudson's Bay Company on the other. . . .