lurid vs metis

lurid

adj
  • Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey. 

  • Being of a light yellow hue. 

  • Having a brown colour tinged with red. 

  • Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. 

  • Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex. 

  • Melodramatic. 

metis

adj
  • Of mixed heritage 

  • Of Métis heritage. 

noun
  • A person of mixed-race ancestry. 

  • A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon. 

  • Practical intelligence; street smarts. 

How often have the words lurid and metis occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )