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dustees

dustees is the plural of dustee.

Meaning of dustee

Noun

dustee (plural dustees)

  1. (dated, historical, offensive, uncommon) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.
    • 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," ...1893, Charles Frederick Pascoe, Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1892, page 223

Questions about dustees

What is dustees the plural of?
Dustees is the plural of dustee.

Words near dustees in the dictionary

  1. dusted off the cobwebs
  2. dusted out
  3. dusted someone's jacket
  4. dusted up
  5. dustee
  6. dustees
  7. Dusten
  8. duster
  9. dusters
  10. dustfall
  11. dustfalls

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