mestization

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mestization (uncountable)

  1. Miscegenation resulting in mestizos.
    • 1984, Sidney David Markman, Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico, page 19:
      The process of mestization of the races and their culture was widespread throughout all of Latin America and applies especially to colonial Central America and most dramatically to El Salvador.