Octoroon

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  • noun. A person having white ancestors except for one black great-grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a person having one eighth negro blood.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
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  • noun. someone having one-eighth black ancestry
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
    • Word Usage
    "One house in particular was called the octoroon house."
    cross-reference
    quadroon  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mixed-blood  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mulatto  quadroon  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Cape Colored  Eurasian  cattalo  citrange  cross  
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