Eurafrican, a. and n.
(jʊəˈræfrɪkən)
[f. European + African n. and a.]
1. Anthrop. Designation of a dark-skinned race which inhabited regions on both sides of the Mediterranean.
| 1890 D. G. Brinton Races & Peoples iv. 105 The white race is..an African race. I have calculated..the area of its control of the three continents... These figures vindicate for the race the title I have given it—Eurafrican. 1899 A. H. Keane Man: Past & Present 444 The right of citizenship is to be withdrawn from such time-honoured names as ‘Hamitic’, ‘Semitic’..in favour of ‘Mediterranean’, ‘Eurafrican’, and other upstarts. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 217/1 Whether this type is more conveniently designated by the word Iberian, or by some other name (‘Eur-african’, ‘Mediterranean’, &c.). 1928 V. G. Childe Most Anc. East ii. 39 The so-called Eurafrican, Mediterranean, or Brown race. |
2. Pertaining to or involving both Europe and Africa, or their peoples together.
| 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1957 Time 18 Feb. 18/2 Pineau said..‘[France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole.’ 1958 Economist 25 Jan. 286/2 A Eurafrican bargain [i.e. between France and Algeria]. 1962 Ibid. 23 June 1192/1 The ‘Eurafrican’ negotiations at Brussels. |
3. Designation of the ‘Coloured People’ of S. Africa, descendants of the native peoples with white admixture.
| 1922 S. G. Millin Adam's Rest ii. v. 156 Frances no longer looked as if she might be a beautiful Spaniard or Italian. She was obviously a Eurafrican. 1927 W. M. Macmillan Cape Colour Question 288 All recent restrictive legislation, designed for the ‘segregation’ of the Natives, classes the ‘Eurafricans’ with the Europeans. 1927 Times (weekly ed.) 24 Nov. 586/1 The coloured or Eurafrican workers. |