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quarter-breed†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the offspring of a white person and a person half Indian.
Quotations
1862
The name is given equally to those who may have a White father and Half breed mother, or vice versa, and who are, thus, quarter-breeds--if we accept the reason of the name.
1903
Thoughts of this wild, quarter-breed girl filled his brain as he sat in his little office. . . .
1935
Inside the schoolhouse a French Quarter-Breed was calling the dances. . . .