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Metis   /mˈɛtɪs/   Listen
Metis

noun
1.
A person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry.





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"Metis" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sebastian preferred; that this object was sepulchral, namely, in its motive—the one surviving relic of a grand burial, in the ancient manner, of a king or hero, whose very tomb was wasted away.—Sunt metis metae! There came with it the odd fancy that he himself would like to have been dead and gone as long ago, with a kind of envy of those whose deceasing was so long ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Pater


Words linked to "Metis" :   Canada, mixed-blood


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