Dustee

Quick meaning: Dustee is a noun meaning (uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.

Meaning

(uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.

Example Sentences

In his first year's ministry in Long Island Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 "Blacks, Mulattoes, Mustees and Dustees." The negroes there had been "misled by strange doctrines." They called themselves "Baptists, the followers of St. John," .

The several removes from a black are as follows:—The mongrel, the offspring of a black and a mulatto; the mulatto, the offspring of a black and a white; the mustee, the offspring of a mulatto and a white; the fustee, the offspring of a mustee and a white; and the dustee, the offspring of a fustee and a white. This last gradation is the connecting link between the degraded children of Ham, and the descendants of his more honoured brethren.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fustilarian, dustperson, fuzznut, dustie, fudd, fuzznuts.

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