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I believe it is the term used to describe a white female.
Correction and explanation: Memsahib is not a Swahili word but one from India. It means "mistress" (the feminine of sahib). The white colonists in East Africa took the Swahili word bwana, Mr. or Sir, to mean "master" and to refer only to themselves. Not finding such a word they could use for white women, they imported memsahib from the Raj. Also heard in southern Africa. It was still commonly used for white women in the early years of independence but is almost never heard today.
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