英和和英

名詞

mameluco (複数形 mamelucos)

1. A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent. [from 19th c.]
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury 2005, p. 126:

     The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.

等位語

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

形容詞

mameluco (comparative more mameluco, superlative most mameluco)

1. (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.

参照

• mameluco in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913