Grif

Quick meaning: Grif is a noun meaning (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).

Meaning

(dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).

Example Sentences

His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.

[…] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.

Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.

[This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.

Word Forms

• grifs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greegree, grisgris, gryphon, guerche, hippogriffin, filagree.

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