redbone
See also: Redbone
English
Noun
redbone (plural redbones)
- (US) A dark-red or tan coonhound.
- (US, Louisiana) An African American with light skin with red undertones.
- 1936, LA bulletin: Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University & A. & M. College, issues 268-293, page 13:
- Redbones are commonly supposed to represent a fusion of the Indian, Negro, and white races […]
- 2009, Janet Allured, Judith F. Gentry, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, page 122:
- The store attracted countless colorful characters, including Native Americans, wild-cowboy Texans, Chinese laborers, and “redbones,” the offspring of African Americans and Native Americans.
- 2012, Gerald Duff, Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, page 238:
- I can joke about being a redbone, and I am that. But most folks don't make no distinction between a redbone and a colored man, unless it's to their benefit.
- 1936, LA bulletin: Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University & A. & M. College, issues 268-293, page 13:
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