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Quadroon

//kwɑːˈdɹuːn// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or related to quadroons. dated, historical, not-comparable

    "Before them, with her face upraised, In timid attitude, Like one half curious, half amazed, A Quadroon maiden stood."

Noun
  1. 1
    A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent. dated, historical

    "There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the ‘Bhaer-garten’, though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school."

  2. 2
    an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

Etymology 2

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

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