plaçage
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See also: placage
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French.
Noun[edit]
plaçage (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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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From placer (“to place”) + -age.
Noun[edit]
plaçage m (plural plaçages)
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Further reading[edit]
- “plaçage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.