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affranchi

  • /əˈfɹɒ̃ʃi/

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Borrowed from French affranchi.

noun affranchis

  1. historical A freed (manumitted) black person in one of France's colonies, especially Haiti. The affranchis were identifiably mulatto and, as such, considered themselves superior to the mass of black slaves. They attempted to emulate whites and developed an ideology of race hatred […]

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@misc{affranchi_2026,
  title = {affranchi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/affranchi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}