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quadroon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mixed-blood |
Examples of quadroon
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I'm a quadroon and he's a Founding Father, so there's already a power imbalance.
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Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saintsbalanced upon the switchblades of that airand sang.
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You're being treated with all the respect a quadroon in the 18th century has a right to expect from a white gentleman of aristocratic breeding.
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- An offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black
- Quadroon is a racial category of hypodescent used to describe a person of mixed-race with one-fourth African and three-fourths Caucasian ancestry. In Australia, the same terms refers to the proportion of Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- The child of a white and a mulatto; has 1 Negro grandparent. (One-fourths black.)
- Person of one-quarter Aboriginal descent.
- A person of mixed race whose ancestry includes one grandparent of African descent and three of European. (Quadroon, octoroon, and similar terms were used to make distinctions in a complex system of social and legal status developed in some Caribbean societies. ...
- A person having one-quarter African ancestry. This was a classification used under slavery.
- A person with one black grandparent
- 1/4 Negro, 3/4 Caucasoid.
