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Definition of Mestizas
1. mestiza [n] - See also: mestiza
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mestizas
Literary usage of Mestizas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"... de las mestizas. After a month in Indian ranchos, that day toiling among ruins,
almost driven to distraction by garrapatas, clambering over a frightful ..."
2. Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the by Charles Carleton Coffin (1882)
"There were four distinct classes of people in Mexico: the Indians; the mestizas,
descendants of the early Spanish settlers and Indians; the Creoles, ..."
3. Unofficial Letters of an Official's Wife by Edith Moses (1908)
"Pretty girls in lace mantillas, the darker mestizas, in gay skirts and ...
The elderly duenna accompanied the Spanish girls, but the mestizas seemed to ..."
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