DCHP-3

Métisse

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a female Métis.

See: Métis

Quotations

1935
"You don't load her into no plane weelly-neelly, lak if she was some . . . métise."
1952
Riel's mother was a Metisse, half French, half Montagnais.
1952
She may have been a very pretty girl, as so many of the Metisse were.
1963
Thomas Scott [was] a Scottish farmer married to a French métisse. . . .