plaçage
See also: placage
English
editEtymology
editFrom French.
Noun
editplaçage (countable and uncountable, plural plaçages)
- a form of marital union, often illegal in nature, found in the Caribbean during the colonial period between a Caucasian man and a woman of mixed races (such as a mulatta or a Creole)
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editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom placer (“to place”) + -age.
Noun
editplaçage m (plural plaçages)
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editFurther reading
edit- “plaçage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.