QUADROON


Meaning of QUADROON in English

/kwo droohn"/ , n.

a person having one-fourth black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a white.

[ 1640-50; alter. of Sp cuarterón, deriv. of cuarto FOURTH quartus; see -OON ]

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