Mameluco, (from mamaruca, Indian for "half-breed"), in colonial Brazil, especially in the São Paulo district, a person of mixed Indian and white ancestry.
The figure of what used to be called the half-breed in a society that demands clarity of categories has tragic potential (as in Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) but here the theme is played out more ambiguously.
In her deep, brazen voice, with its roomy vibrato, she emoted over discrimination in "Half Breed" and "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," longing in "Take Me Home" and heartbreak in "Bang Bang" and "All or Nothing".
In her deep, brazen voice, with its roomy vibrato, she emoted over discrimination in "Half Breed" and "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," longing in "Take Me Home" and heartbreak in "Bang Bang" and "All or Nothing". But with Cher performing the songs, her ever-changing facade promised that persistence and snazzy clothes can ease any pain.
For millenniums, malamutes (often interbred by their owners with wild wolves, thus lending a little credence to the cartoon half-breed appearance in "Balto") reigned supreme in Alaska.
In 1578, an English chronicler, George Best, took note of "half-breed" children in the port cities.
An 1824 federal treaty with the Sac and Fox tribes set aside a 119,000 acre Half-Breed Tract in Iowa between the Mississippi River and the Des Moines River.
Over the years Miss Goddard appeared in such movies as Cecil B. De Mille's "North West Mounted Police," in which she played a tempestuous half-breed siren, and in his "Unconquered," in which she bathed in a barrel.
It was provided that it should not be necessary to name the defendants in the suits, but the words "owners of the half-breed lands lying in Lee County" should be a sufficient designation of the defendants in such suits; and it provided that the trials should be by the court, and not by a jury.
To the locals, he was a strange man from China with a troubled past: a dead son, a lost wife, a half-breed grandchild somewhere in the distant villages.
