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English
Etymology
From Spanish mestizo fino or a short form thereof; compare English mustee from Spanish mestizo.
Noun
musteefino (plural musteefinos or musteefinoes)
- (obsolete) A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.
1834, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica, London: J. Murray, page 106:[…] while the children of a musteefino are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes .
1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 516:while the children of a musteefino were free under the old slavery laws, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes.
1979, Aggrey Brown, Color, Class, and Politics in Jamaica, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:[…] from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white, the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is a musteefino; while the ...
Coordinate terms
- (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto