musteefino

plural musteefinos · plural musteefinoes · alternative mustifino · alternative mustiphini

1. obsoleteA child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.

   […] while the children of a musteefino are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes .

   1834, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica, London: J. Murray, page 106

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   while the children of a musteefino were free under the old slavery laws, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes.

   1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 516

   […] from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white, the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is a musteefino; while the ...

   1979, Aggrey Brown, Color, Class, and Politics in Jamaica, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 32