2. Noun. (plural of mestee) ¹
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Definition of Mestees
1. mestee [n] - See also: mestee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mestees
Literary usage of Mestees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in South America by William Bingley (1820)
"The mestees are the offspring of Spaniards and Indians, and are the next class
in rank ... The cholos, on the contrary, spring from Indians and mestees, ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"All Mamelukes, Mestees, Mulattoes, Negroes, and generally all persons of colour
of either sex, who pretend to be free, and live as such, to deliver in their ..."
3. Jamaica: Its Past and Present State by Phillippo, James Mursell (1843)
"Five principal varieties are generally enumerated as descending from the original
negro stock, the sambos, mulattoes, quadroons, mestees, ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"All Mamelukes, Mestees, Mulattoes, Negroes, and generally all persons of colour
of either sex, who pretend to be free, and live as such, to deliver in their ..."
5. The Hidden Way Across the Threshold: Or, The Mystery which Hath Been Hidden by J. C. Street (1887)
"The word Mediator comes in this instance from mestees, which, ... This same
anointing, christening, or mediumship — mestees — has been and still can be ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"... mestees or Indians, and a young student of medicine. с also took with her a
French physician and his companion : these were added to the party at the ..."
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