[Ashantee or Fantee Kwasi, a name commonly given to a child born on Sunday.] A negro personal name, adopted as a general name for any negro.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle (1862), 246. Then Quashie himself, or a company of free blacks.
1850. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 122. A certain sympathy with Quashee!
1889. Clark Russell, Marooned, III. 114. The same Quashee whom I had supposed dead.
