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🌎 Mixed ancestry 🟫 Brownish-gray 🎨 A muted color
pardo

pardo

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A person whose family has European, African and native roots
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːrdoʊ/
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  • Bandera chronicled each day's journey, describing surroundings and documenting land claims, gifts, missionary efforts, and Pardo's speeches.
  • Juan Pardo
  • Pardo Expedition

Examples

  • "To Pardo and his men it was very good country, as good as the best in Spain," Hudson wrote.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Pardo returned to Santa Elena shortly before the fall of the inland forts and probably went home to Spain.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Morenos/as and pardos/as were further subdivided legally and socially by their status as slave or free.

    Academic text (2013)

  • His book, The Juan Pardo Expeditions, examines Pardo's travels in detail and contains the first published English-language translation of Bandera's full account.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The pardo children enjoyed storytelling that reflected their diverse heritage.

  • In the community, many pardos face challenges that stem from their mixed ancestry.

  • At the festival, the pardo families showcased their cultural traditions through dance and music.

Surface Forms

pardo singular
pardos plural

Etymology

Pardo was used in colonial Latin America to describe people of mixed European, African, and Indigenous ancestry. The word comes from the color meaning, from pardus 'leopard' and the English leopard, and so it referred to a 'brown' appearance, which is why pardo became a label for mixed heritage.