Mestiço

Mestiço, in Colonial Brazil, was used to refer to people of mixed Indigenous American or African and European ancestry.

For the Spanish term, see Mestizo.
Mestiço man with gun and sword under a fruiting papaya tree, Albert Eckhout, mid-seventeenth century Dutch Brazil
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