(Spanish; "brown") In Venezuela, a person of mixed African, European, and Indian ancestry. In the colonial period, pardos, like all nonwhites, were kept in a state of servitude, with no hope of gaining wealth or political power. Nevertheless, most pardos remained royalists during much of the war for independence because they relied on Spain for protection in their conflicts with the Venezuelan-born whites, toward whom the European Spaniards took a superior attitude. In Brazil a pardo is a person of mixed European and African descent. brown lung disease brown bear brown dwarf brown recluse spider brown trout Brown University Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Brown Capability Lancelot Brown Brown Charles Brockden Brown Clifford Brown Ford Madox Brown George Brown James Brown Jim James Nathaniel Brown Brown John Brown Joseph Rogers Brown Molly Brown Robert Brown William Wells Durand Asher Brown Hayes Brown Helen Radcliffe Brown Alfred Reginald Betye Irene Brown James Ewell Brown Stuart Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Tod Charles Albert Browning