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Octoroon

noun
1.
An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black.





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"Octoroon" Quotes from Famous Books



... African, blackamoor, Ethiopian, Nigritian, Senegambian, Mandingo, negrillo, Papuan, Krooman; darkey, buck, nigger; (of mixed blood) mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, mestee, Zambo, Sambo, sacatra. Associated ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


Words linked to "Octoroon" :   mixed-blood, archaicism, archaism


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