Quintroon
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black. dated
- 2 The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black. dated
"Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law."
Example
More examples"Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish quinterón (“offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).
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