Lexicographical Neighbors of Metifs
Literary usage of Metifs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the by François Pyrard (1887)
"... they rank next after the Portuguese and the Indian metifs. Moreover, metifs
whose mothers are of a lower caste are not ..."
2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"240} This author has also metifs (ii. 10 : [Hak. Soc. i. 373]), and again : ".
... c'est à dire metifs, ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1907)
"Pine, No. i, metifs on, XIII, 289. Pine, No. 2, Nuttall on, XIII, 140, 289.
Pine, No. 4, Nuttall on, XIII, 288. Pine, No. 5, described by Nuttall, XIII, ..."