Definitions for "Pardo"
general term for person of mixed racial ancestry.
In Brazil, pardo is the formal racial classification of brown people, as used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in censuses since 1950. The word is Brazilian Portuguese for "brown" or "grey-brown". The other classifications are "branco" (white (person)), "negro" (black (person)), "amarelo" (yellow), and "indigena" (indigenous).
A money of account once used in in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts. (in 1913).