quadroon
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter blackType of mixed-blood
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Quad·roon′ noun
Origin: F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See Quarter a fourth part, and cf. Quarteron.
The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54