full-blood
English
Noun
full-blood (plural full-bloods)
- A pure-bred animal. [from 18th c.]
- (Australia, now offensive) An Aboriginal person of unmixed ancestry. [from 19th c.]
- 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:
- There are only 800 full-bloods now in New South Wales due to the maladministration of previous governments.
- 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:
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