Indeterminate – Adjective
Definition- not able to be stated or described in an exact way
Source – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indeterminate?show=0&t=1400613607
Found in – ” There was Once ” by Margaret Atwood
Passage – ” There was once a girl of indeterminate descent, as average- looking as she was good, who lived with her wicked”
This was one of the correction that the second speakers makes while the first speaker is telling the story. The second speaker states that the character of the original Cinderella story was already from the dominate culture which is white, that the story should be different. That Cinderella should be from some other culture but by saying indeterminate to says that the race is unknown so every reader could assume she from any place.
