‖ mustafina
(mʌstəˈfiːnə)
Also musteefino, -phina.
[App. a derivative of mustee; the last part, if not arbitrary, may perh. represent Sp. fino fine a.]
The offspring of a mustee and a white.
| a 1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 106 The child of a mustee by a white man is called a musteefino. 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 6 The fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth. 1833 Marryat P. Simple xxxi, I believe..the mustee and white [make] the mustafina, or one sixteenth black. 1872 Schele de Vere Americanisms 115. |