GRIFとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

grif (plural grifs)

1. (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).
   • 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:

     His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.

   • 1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 263:

     […] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.

   • 2012, Andrew Sluyter, Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.

   • 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     [This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.

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