dougla

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Noun

dougla (plural douglas)

  1. (West Indies) A Caribbean person of mixed African and Indian descent.
    • 2002, Yasurō Hase, ‎Hiroyuki Miyake, ‎Fumiko Oshikawa, South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora
      But the dilemmas facing douglas and their parents are often different: being born dougla is not the same as choosing intermarriage and bearing a dougla. Parents are not often douglas themselves.

Derived terms

  • douglarisation, douglarization

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