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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESTIZO (adopted from the See also:Spanish, the Portuguese See also:form being mestico, from See also:Lat. miscere, to mix) , a See also:term originally meaning a See also:half-breed, one of whose parents was Spanish, and now used occasionally of any half-breed, but especially to denote persons of mixed Spanish (or Portuguese) and See also:American See also:Indian See also:blood. The offspring of such half-breeds are also'called mestizoes. The feminine form is mestiza.

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