quarter-castes
quarter-castes is the plural of quarter-caste.
Meaning of quarter-caste
Noun
quarter-caste (plural quarter-castes)
- A person with one "half-caste" parent and one Caucasian parent
- I guess the sort of thing that happened to my mum has happened constantly to Aboriginal people over the years. That's why the whitefellas talk so much about which of us is full blood, half-caste, quarter-caste, and all that other rubbish. I reckon those kinds of images make people think that we are...2007, Ken Colbung in Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 67...
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- What is quarter-castes the plural of?
- Quarter-castes is the plural of quarter-caste.
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