musteefino

musteefino

English

Etymology

From Spanish mestizo fino or a short form thereof; compare English mustee from Spanish mestizo.

Noun

musteefino (plural musteefinos)

1. (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 ...

Alternative forms

• mustifino, mustiphini

Coordinate terms

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto