Definitions for mestizas

mestizas mes·ti·za

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

Mestizas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in mestizas (aeimsstz).

Definitions for mestizas

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 mestizas

From Spanish

Examples for mestizas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for mestizas
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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