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mustee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mʌsˈtiː/ (UK)
  • /məˈsti/ (US)
  • (UK) audio
  • /ˈməsti/ (US)
  • /ˈmʌstiː/ (UK)
  • /mʌˈstiː/ (UK)

Etymology

From mestizo (noun).

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A person of one-eighth African ancestry.
    • Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task. 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
    • a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493

Forms

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mustees Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

list in mulatto (person of mixed race)

Deriveds

musteefino · mustiphini

Synonyms

octoroon · octaroon