Definitions for mestiza

mestiza mes·ti·za

Spelling: [me-stee-zuh, mi-]
IPA: /mɛˈsti zə, mɪ-/

Mestiza is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in mestiza (aeimstz).

Definitions for mestiza

noun

  1. a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.

Origin of mestiza

From Spanish

Examples for mestiza

From the spot where she lay the mestiza witnessed their greeting.

She was a mestiza, or half-blood, of Indian and Spanish mixture, as her brownish-white skin testified.

The mestiza, as well as the Indians, are mostly ignorant in book-knowledge, only about sixteen per cent.

But white wives being difficult to obtain, mestiza maidens had generally to be accepted, or rather, taken in their stead.

Very seldom, indeed, does a native Indian or mestiza beauty sport the same saya for two gala days consecutively.

This the mestiza saw, and it compelled her to pause and reflect how she was to get nearer.

The beautiful young lady of the house, in a mestiza gown4 and a cascade of diamonds, was as ever the queen of the feast.

The mestiza girls are, as a rule, often of wonderful beauty.

She is a mestiza, and thou art a child of the Church, though this following of gypsy wenches does not show it.

Whatever truth there was in the last part of her harangue, the mestiza knew that its earlier declarations were true enough.

Word Value for mestiza
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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