Mameluco
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mameluco is a noun meaning A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent.
Meaning
A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent.
More Meanings
- (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.
Example Sentences
The reverse is the case in South America, where the mixture of the Portuguese or Brazilian with the Indian produces the "Mameluco," who is not unfrequently lighter than either parent, and always lighter than the Indian.
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.
Word Forms
- mamelucos
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