plaçage

From French

plaçage (plural plaçages)

1. 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)

• placée

From placer (“to place”) +‎ -age

plaçage m (plural plaçages)

1. plaçage

• placée

• “plaçage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).