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Caucasian

Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

  2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

Caucasian

Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, n.

  1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

  2. A member of any of the white races of mankind.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Caucasian

1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in German) by German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because its supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. (See Aryan).

Caucasian

"resident or native of the Caucasus," 1843; see Caucasus + -ian. Meaning "one of the 'white' race" is from 1958 (earlier Caucasoid, 1956).

Wiktionary
caucasian

a. (alternative case form of Caucasian English)

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Usage examples of "caucasian".

I never knew her to show to the men or women of any race anything but the utmost of sympathetic courtesy and consideration, whether they were the noble brown-skinned Caucasians of India, the sturdy Balkanites of Southern Europe, or the simple, spiritual Blacks of Africa, today one of the leading races of the world--although in the Twentieth Century we regarded them as inferior.

Central India, the Kols, Gonds, Bhils, and others which have certain characteristics of the Mongolian, but with skins almost as dark as the Negro, and the full eye of the Caucasian.

Caucasian tale of revenge, free from Byronic darkness and prolixity, written in a rapid tempo, with a somewhat crude but vigorous martial beat.

Those heard it who dwelt in the Colchian land very far from Titanian Aea, near the outfall of Lycus, the river which parts from loud-roaring Araxes and blends his sacred stream with Phasis, and they twain flow on together in one and pour their waters into the Caucasian Sea.

The women of that country are famous for their good looks-they are Gallinas with a dash of European blood that dates from the days of Vasco da Gama and the English slavetraders, and the Porroh man, too, was possibly inspired by a faint Caucasian taint in his composition.

A short thickset man of vaguely oriental appearance, he was of that mixed Hawaiian and Caucasian ancestry that in his birthplace is called hapa haoli.

As to the customary law of the Caucasian mountaineers, it is much the same as that of the Longobards or Salic Franks, and several of its dispositions explain a good deal the judicial procedure of the barbarians of old.

The fact that a tall, bearded Caucasian also appears in the legends of numerous other ancient Andean cultures provides further clues of a link between Mesoamerican Indians and those of South America.

Cambridge, my fellow archaeologists and I had found overwhelming evidence indicating a superior race of Caucasians had influenced the development of both the Mesoamerican and South American Indians.

His frame was that of a Caucasian Nordic, topping mine by nearly thirty centimetres, but the face was at odds.

Caucasian hawks, Babylonian sakers, German gerfalcons, and pilgrim falcons captured on the cliffs edging the cold seas, in distant lands.

There were swirls of people around most exhibits, plenty of black tuxedos mixed in with the rainbow silks and gleaming gems, and more Caucasians than Asians.

Willis Comstock Krebbs, Caucasian male, age sixty-three, born in Tucson, Arizona.

A white Caucasian female then placed a suction tube in Peterson's throat and with a foot pedal device began aspirating Peterson's blood.

It so obviously depicted a Caucasian male with a high-bridged nose and a long, flowing beard that the bemused archaeologists promptly christened it ‘Uncle Sam’.