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half-caste

adj

Etymology

From half- + caste.

  1. derived from *h₂ǵ-es-✻
  2. derived from castus — “chaste"; "chastity”
  3. borrowed from casta — “lineage, breed, race”
  4. formed as half-caste — “half- + caste”

Definitions

  1. Of mixed racial descent.

    • 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.

  2. A person of mixed racial descent.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for half-caste. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA