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éپ

[ mey-tees ]

noun

plural éپs
  1. Canadian. a woman or girl of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the éپ Nation, recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples:

    Sara Riel's linguistic talents and her status as a éپ made her welcome among the Gray Nuns of the 19th century.

  2. éپ, any woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry.


adjective

  1. Canadian. being a éپ.
  2. éپ, being a woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry:

    She is éپ, the child of a French man and a Congolese woman.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of éپ1

First recorded in 1890–95; from French; feminine of éپ ( def )
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Example Sentences

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Also dealing with racial, sexual and class politics is the disturbing "Daïnah la éپ," set entirely on an ocean liner and starring Laurence Clavius as a multiracial woman who is troubled by her life.

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However, to date the judges have only ordered one person's net access to be suspended - a 43-year-old accused of copying music by Rihanna, the pop group Collectif Metisse and the French movie Heartbreaker.

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An ephemeral encampment of 50 Dome Dwellings, covered in the emblems of all nations was installed alongside the Metisse Flag.

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For these become transformed in the West Indian folklore,—adapted to the environment, and to local idealism:— Cinderella, for example, is changed to a beautiful metisse, wearing a quadruple collier-choux, zépingues tremblants, and all the ornaments of a da.

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It is many-colored; but the general dominant tint is yellow, like that of the town itself—yellow in the interblending of all the hues characterizing mulâtresse, capresse, griffe, quarteronne, éپ, chabine,—a general effect of rich brownish yellow.

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