Meaning of grif | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

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

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

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

“[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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