mestee

American

[me-stee] / mɛˈsti /

noun

mustee.

mestee British

/ mɛˈstiː /

noun

a variant of mustee

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Mestee, mes-tē′, n. the offspring of a white person and a quadroon.

From Project Gutenberg

They used all the means they could devise to keep him in the college, but he would not stay, and, hiring a house in the city, he opened shop as a painter, where he got plenty of employment, and in the end married the daughter of a mestee, so that he laid his account to remain there as long as he lived.

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