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Definition of Metif
1. a child of a white and a quadroon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metif
Literary usage of Metif
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"Two or three other metif families resided also in the neighbourhood. On the 12th
we arrived at Monsieur Dardennes', and to-day experienced a keen ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1881)
"The hybrid comes from the crossing of different species; the metif from the ...
On the contrary, the metif is produced spontaneously without the least ..."
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