单词 | musteefino |
释义 | musteefinon. Now chiefly Caribbean and historical. A person having one white-skinned parent and the other a mustee. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person mulatto1591 mulat1678 mustee1699 quadroon1707 quintroon1769 terceroon1772 blue skin1788 metif1805 musteefinoa1818 Morisco1819 octoon1840 griff1850 octoroon1854 Conchy Joe1888 mustard seed1926 a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 106 The child of a mustee by a white man is called a musteefino. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 6 The fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 196 I believe..the mustee and white, [make] the mustafina, or one sixteenth black. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 115 The child of a Spaniard and an Indian..again produces Mustafina, the offspring of a mustee and a white, having therefore only one sixteenth of black blood in his veins. 1983 Word Ways Aug. 153 Numerous synonyms for Black/White mixtures exist, especially for mulatto... Quintroon, dustee, mustafina (in West Indies). 1999 H. Marks in S. Champion Fortune Hotel 29 Morgan Bevan Bowen (BB) Price was a Jamaican musteefino, fifteen-sixteenths black and one-sixteenth white. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1818 |
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