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单词 mustiphini
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mustiphini

English

Noun

mustiphini (plural mustiphinis)

  1. (obsolete) A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.
    • 1828 Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica pg 183
      Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.
    • 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
      a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; the child of a mustiphini by a white father is a quintroon

See also

  • quintroon
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