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Mestizos

Mestizo \Mes*ti"zo\, n.; pl. Mestizos. [Sp. mestizo; akin to OF. mestis, F. m['e]tis; all fr. (assumed) LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p. of miscere to mix. See Mix, and cf. Mestee, M['E]tif, M['E]tis, Mustee.] The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [Spanish America]

Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

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mestizos

alt. (plural of mestizo English) n. (plural of mestizo English)

Usage examples of "mestizos".

We mestizos swarmed city streets like lice and robbed the gachupin blind on the rural roads.

Merchants and mendicants, soldiers and sailors, whores and ladies, indios and mestizos, richly dressed españols, village headmen, caciques in colorful indio mantas, flamboyant africanas and mulattas.

Sancho and the mestizos were obviously a gang of banditos, the sort who laid-in-wait to ambush travelers, cutting throats for whatever was in the victim's pockets.

If you attempt to run away, not only will my mestizos cut off your head, but I will track down the old man and cut off his.

The mestizos used an iron rod to poke a hole into the wall and then kept increasing the depth of the hole but not the width.

After he was finished, the mestizos piled wood and blankets against the hole.

While other mestizos are keeping warm and dry as household servants or at least mercifully dying at an early age, clutching a cup of pulque in the gutter, I am always tempting fate by taking a jaguar by the ear.

Mateo and I had both questioned indios, mestizos and españols along the way and learned nothing.

They tell me that indios and mestizos who work for Spaniards are being hunted down and devoured by jaguars that have been trained to kill Spaniards and those who support them.

To protect against marauders—bands of mestizos, escaped slaves, and renegade Spaniards—the walls had to be thick enough so a musket shot could not breach them and high enough to make them difficult to climb.

He deals in bond servants, landless indios, luckless mestizos, anyone or group that is helpless and can be roped into a project.

Just as the españols treated indios and mestizos as their work animals, a farm woman was a work animal to her husband.

The two-footed traffic consisted of mine workers, indios, mestizos, and africanos, going to or from the mines.

Tell them I am a prince of mestizos and that no Spaniard is safe with his gold or his women while I am alive.

They were stupid, greedy mestizos, but their strong backs would be necessary.