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mustee

Mestee \Mes*tee"\, n. [See Mestizo.] The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mustee

"octoroon, offspring of a white and a quadroon," also "half-caste," 1690s, a corruption of Spanish mestizo (q.v.).

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mustee

n. (context archaic English) an octoroon, someone of one-eighth African ancestry

Usage examples of "mustee".

Doctor Romanelli shivered slightly in spite of the heat and turned to the north, squinting at the bristling, tangled maze of whitewashed walls and brightly colored enamelled domes that was the new section of the city, which had grown up like lush riverside vegetation around the highway, called the Mustee, that connected the Citadel with the ancient Harbor of Boolak.

The Mustee, at an hour past noon, was at its most crowded, with heavily laden camels pressing stolidly through the throng, and the shouts of the veiled women selling oranges rising in jarring cacophony over the song of the rat catcheron whose broad-brimmed hat six trained examples of his prey, each wearing a little hat of its own, formed a pyramidand the yells of the fish and milk vendors and the chanted prayers of the beggars.

Mustee, a shortened form of Musteefino or musterfino: loosely, a halfcaste, but particularly one who was very pale skinned.