"mustee" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mʌˈstiː/ [UK], /mʌsˈtiː/ [UK], /ˈmʌstiː/ [UK], /məˈsti/ [US], /ˈməsti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-mustee.wav Forms: mustees [plural]
Etymology: From mestizo (noun). Head templates: {{en-noun}} mustee (plural mustees)
  1. (archaic) A person of one-eighth African ancestry. Tags: archaic Synonyms: octaroon, octoroon Derived forms: musteefino, mustiphini Coordinate_terms (person of mixed race): list in mulatto

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        }
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        },
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493",
          "text": "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;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus",
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      "ipa": "/mʌsˈtiː/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌstiː/",
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      "ipa": "/məˈsti/",
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      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈməsti/",
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