brass ankles
brass ankles is the plural of brass ankle.
Meaning of brass ankle
Noun
brass ankle (plural brass ankles)
- A person whose racial heritage is regarded as primarily white, but with a small degree of known or suspected non-white ancestry. A manifestation of the American “one-drop rule” of racial categorization.
- Moreover, the Maroons also practiced the diversions of polygamy. Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston. The men were tall and handsome and well made, and had a wild...1937, Richardson Little Wright, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, →OCLC, →OL, Maroon Fun, page 232
Noun capitalized: Brass Ankles
Brass Ankles pl (plural only)
- A triracial isolate group that developed in colonial South Carolina.
Questions about brass ankles
- What does brass ankles mean?
- Brass ankles means a triracial isolate group that developed in colonial South Carolina.
- What is brass ankles the plural of?
- Brass ankles is the plural of brass ankle.
- What part of speech is brass ankles?
- Brass ankles is a noun.
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