Quadroon

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  • noun. A person having white ancestors except for one black 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 mulatto and a white person; a person having one fourth African blood.
  • Fourth in descent from a negro parent, one parent in each generation having been white.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person of three-fourths Caucasian descent and one fourth African descent.
  • adjective. Having three-fourths Caucasian descent and one-fourth African descent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black
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    ""No: not half black, only a quarter -- what they call a quadroon in the"
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