mestee

[me-stee]

noun

1. mustee.

mestee

/ mɛˈstiː /

noun

1. a variant of mustee

Example Sentences

“The choice he has an opportunity of making is various, a black, a tawney, a mulatto or a mestee, one of which can be purchased for 100 or 150 sterling If a progeny of young colored children is brought forth, these are emancipated, and mostly sent by those fathers who can afford it, at the age of three or four years, to be educated in England.”

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

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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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