mustiphini

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A form of musteefino — A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmustiphini (plural mustiphinis)

plural mustiphinis

  1. alternativeAlternative form of musteefino.

    Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.

    1828, Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, page 183
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    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; the child of a mustiphini by a white father is a quintroon

    1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493

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