Métisse
[ mey-tees ]
noun,plural Mé·tisses [mey-tees, -tee-siz]. /meɪˈtis, -ˈti sɪz/.
Canadian. a woman or girl of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the Métis Nation, recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples: Sara Riel's linguistic talents and her status as a Métisse made her welcome among the Gray Nuns of the 19th century.
métisse, any woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry.
adjective
Canadian. being a Métisse.
métisse, being a woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry: She is métisse, the child of a French man and a Congolese woman.
Origin of Métisse
1First recorded in 1890–95; from French; feminine of Métis
- Also me·tisse (for defs. 2, 4) .
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