A half-breed. See 1588.
1582. Worsted stockings knit, which are worne of the mastizoes.—Hakluyt (1850), p. 167. (Stanford Dict.)
1588. A Mestizo is one which hath a Spaniard to his father and an Indian to his mother.—Id. (1600), iii. 814. (N.E.D.)
1600. Paul Horsewell is married to a Mestisa, as they name those whose fathers were Spaniards, and their mothers Indians.—Id., iii. 390. (Stanford Dict.).
1824. Dorion, a Mestizo, had acquired a considerable quantity of peltry.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 21.
1887. There was no inducement to go ashore, as there was absolutely nothing to see in the sleepy little mestizo town.—L. Oliphant, ‘Episodes of a Life of Adventure,’ p. 118. (Stanford Dict.) (Italics in the original.)
