mustee

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /mʌˈstiː/, /mʌsˈtiː/, /ˈmʌstiː/
• (America) IPA: /məˈsti/, /ˈməsti/

Noun

mustee (plural mustees)

1. (archaic) A person of one-eighth African ancestry.
   • Synonyms: octoroon
   • 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies ↗ p. 493

     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;

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