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full-blood en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A pure-bred animal.
  2. (Australia, offensive) An Aboriginal person of unmixed ancestry.
    • There are only 800 full-bloods now in New South Wales due to the maladministration of previous governments. 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38
    • Dorahy has his mouth ready to smile […] but it is a young woman who appears, a full-blood with crisp hair and a deeply pigmented skin. 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 104:

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Descendants

Vollblut