mustee
nounUK /mʌˈstiː/ · US /məˈsti/
Etymology From mestizo (noun).
1
Archaic A person of one-eighth African ancestry.
- 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
- 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:
- Derived terms
- musteefino, mustiphini
- Coordinate terms
- list in mulatto