mustee, mestee
(mʌˈstiː, mɛˈstiː)
Also 8 mæsti, meste, musty, 9 mesti, musti, (erron. muster).
[Corruptly a. Sp. mestizo (pronounced mesˈtiθo): see mestizo.]
The offspring of a white and a quadroon; also, loosely, a half-caste.
| 1699 in Wheeler Madras in Old. Time (1861) I. 356 Wives of Freemen..Mustees. 2. 1712 W. Rogers Voy. (1718) 203 The Mustees, begot by Spaniards on Indian women. 1781 Hicky's Bengal Gaz. 24 Feb. (Yule), A Slave Boy..pretty white or colour of Musty. 1783 Marsden Sumatra 40 They are in general lighter than the Mestees, or half breed, of the rest of India. 1796 Stedman Surinam (1813) I. xii. 309 The Samboe dark, and the Mulatto brown, The Mæsti fair. 1802 C. James Milit. Dict., Musti, one born of a Mulatto father or mother and a white father or mother. 1813 Sporting Mag. XLII. 211 The Government have multiplied the difficulties for Europeans mixing with Creoles or Mestis. 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 6 The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster. 1865 G. J. Whyte-Melville Cerise (1866) II. vii. 103 Those Portuguese rovers, and the mustee who commanded them. |
| attrib. 1829 Marryat F. Mildmay xviii, A class of women, born of white fathers and mustee or mulatto women. |