quadroonn.adj.

Brit.

/kwɒˈdruːn/,

/kwəˈdruːn/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrun/

Forms:

α. 1700s quatron, 1700s–1800s quateron, 1700s– quarteron, 1800s quarteroon, 1800s quartroon, 1800s quatroon, 1900s– quateroon.

β. 1700s quaderoon, 1700s quadron, 1700s– quadroon.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish cuarterón.

Etymology: < Spanish cuarterón person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter non-white (originally specifically with reference to a person of indigenous American descent) (1605 or earlier; 13th cent. in sense ‘one quarter’) < cuarto fourth, quarter ( < classical Latin quartus : see quart n.²) + -erón , suffix. In β. forms probably by association with words in quadri- comb. form or quadru- comb. form. Compare French quarteron (1722; < Spanish).

Now chiefly considered offensive.

A. n.

1. A person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter black; a person with one black grandparent. Formerly also: †a person with one black great-grandparent (obsolete rare). Cf. terceroon n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person

mulatto1591

mulat1678

mustee1699

quadroon1707

quintroon1769

terceroon1772

blue skin1788

metif1805

musteefinoa1818

Morisco1819

octoon1840

griff1850

octoroon1854

Conchy Joe1888

mustard seed1926

α.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xlvi The inhabitants of Jamaica are for the most part Europeans..who are the Masters, and Indians, Negros, Mulatos, Alcatrazes, Mestises, Quarterons, &c. who are the Slaves.

1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. iv. 31 Next to these [sc. Mulattoes] are the Tercerones, produced from a White and a Mulatto... After these follow the Quarterones, proceeding from a white and a Terceron.

1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 98 Castaing is described as a small dark mulatto, and La Chaise as a Quateron.

1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. vi. 251 You always liked Anna, the quarteroon, better than me.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 304 Your pale-white Creoles,..and your yellow Quarteroons.

1938 C. L. R. James Black Jacobins ii. 27 The child of the white and the Mulatto woman was a quarteron with 96 parts white and 32 parts black. But the quarteron could be produced by the white and the marabou in the proportion of 88 to 40, [etc.].

1992 M. Kurlansky Continent of Islands ii. 48 There were more than a dozen subclassifications. A mulatto and a white made a quateroon.

β. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 296 The Samboe dark, and the Mulatto brown, The Mæsti fair, the well-limbed Quaderoon.1819 W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. 295 Europeans and Tercerons produce Quarterons or Quadroons.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 195 The progeny of a white and a negro is a mulatto, or half and half—of a white and mulatto, a quadroon, or one quarter black.1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 178 That brute goes with a quadroon to a restaurant.1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 68 Katrina is fair and has lovely wavy brown hair. She must be a quadroon.1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction ii. iii. 47 Now that we have a Miss America who is black or who, at least, can pass for a fairly pronounced quadroon, I suppose that the chiliastic inevitability of taxes and death might be called into question.

2. By extension: any person of comparably mixed ancestry; a plant or animal obtained by crossing in such proportions. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross

mongrel1558

hybrid1601

centaur1606

mulatto1664

half-strain1673

cross1761

cross-breed1774

first cross1793

double-cross1810

quadroon1811

intercross1859

outcross1882

reciprocal1901

filial generation1902

monohybrid1902

vicinist1905

first filial (or F₁) generation1909

polyhybrid1910

back-cross1919

second filial (or F₂) generation1938

1811 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 6 346 Whether a man were a half-new Christian, or a quateron, or a half-quateron..the Hebrew leaven was in the blood.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 29 Each person's caste is decided by the quality of the blood, which shows itself..at first sight. Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quatroon or octoon, is sufficient to raise one from the position of a serf.

1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species 72 Koelreuter artificially fertilised hybrid flowers..and thus obtained a vegetable quadroon.

1909 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 81 145 The quadroons and other irregular crosses [of moths] have next to be briefly dealt with.

B. adj.

attributive. That is a quadroon; having one black grandparent or (formerly) great-grandparent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black

mulatto1677

quadroon1748

dingy1785

yellow1796

high brown1911

1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Indians, born of Whites and Mestizos.

1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Negroes, born of Whites and Mulattos.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vi. 126 A young and beautiful Quadroon girl.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 14 A marriage between a white planter and a quadroon girl.

1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 60 A pretty..mulatto, or rather quadroon girl.

1915 J. R. B. Love Aborigines 32 The quadroon child is white, and should be treated as such.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 150/1 In the late 1700s and early 1800s quadroon women—those born to a mulatto mother and white father—sought to become mistresses of upper-class white men.

Compounds

quadroon ball n. now historical (esp. in New Orleans) a ball held for quadroon women and white men.

ΚΠ

1805 J. F. Watson Diary in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 236 These colored women have their weekly balls, (called quartroon balls) at which none but white gentlemen attend.

1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes iii. 19 I saw the same old man, at a quadroon ball a few years ago.

1948 Chicago Tribune 8 Feb. (Grafic Mag.) 18/3 Most notorious of the carnival affairs, was the Quadroon ball, given by the young men of the town for their mistresses and friends.

1998 F. Flagg Welcome to World, Baby Girl! 410 Philipe Le Guarde..had met her and fallen in love with her at one of the world-famous quadroon balls held on Bourbon Street.

† quadroon black n. Obsolete rare a person with one black and one quadroon parent.

ΚΠ

1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Q[uadroon]. black, one parent of a quadroon black is a pure negro and the other is white, save that he or she has had a negro grandfather or grandmother. The mixture in this case is 7-8ths negro and 1-8th white.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quadroon
释义	quadroonn.adj. Brit. /kwɒˈdruːn/, /kwəˈdruːn/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrun/ Forms: α. 1700s quatron, 1700s–1800s quateron, 1700s– quarteron, 1800s quarteroon, 1800s quartroon, 1800s quatroon, 1900s– quateroon. β. 1700s quaderoon, 1700s quadron, 1700s– quadroon. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish cuarterón. Etymology: < Spanish cuarterón person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter non-white (originally specifically with reference to a person of indigenous American descent) (1605 or earlier; 13th cent. in sense ‘one quarter’) < cuarto fourth, quarter ( < classical Latin quartus : see quart n.²) + -erón , suffix. In β. forms probably by association with words in quadri- comb. form or quadru- comb. form. Compare French quarteron (1722; < Spanish). Now chiefly considered offensive. A. n. 1. A person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter black; a person with one black grandparent. Formerly also: †a person with one black great-grandparent (obsolete rare). Cf. terceroon n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person mulatto1591 mulat1678 mustee1699 quadroon1707 quintroon1769 terceroon1772 blue skin1788 metif1805 musteefinoa1818 Morisco1819 octoon1840 griff1850 octoroon1854 Conchy Joe1888 mustard seed1926 α. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xlvi The inhabitants of Jamaica are for the most part Europeans..who are the Masters, and Indians, Negros, Mulatos, Alcatrazes, Mestises, Quarterons, &c. who are the Slaves. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. iv. 31 Next to these [sc. Mulattoes] are the Tercerones, produced from a White and a Mulatto... After these follow the Quarterones, proceeding from a white and a Terceron. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 98 Castaing is described as a small dark mulatto, and La Chaise as a Quateron. 1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. vi. 251 You always liked Anna, the quarteroon, better than me. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 304 Your pale-white Creoles,..and your yellow Quarteroons. 1938 C. L. R. James Black Jacobins ii. 27 The child of the white and the Mulatto woman was a quarteron with 96 parts white and 32 parts black. But the quarteron could be produced by the white and the marabou in the proportion of 88 to 40, [etc.]. 1992 M. Kurlansky Continent of Islands ii. 48 There were more than a dozen subclassifications. A mulatto and a white made a quateroon. β. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 296 The Samboe dark, and the Mulatto brown, The Mæsti fair, the well-limbed Quaderoon.1819 W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. 295 Europeans and Tercerons produce Quarterons or Quadroons.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 195 The progeny of a white and a negro is a mulatto, or half and half—of a white and mulatto, a quadroon, or one quarter black.1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 178 That brute goes with a quadroon to a restaurant.1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 68 Katrina is fair and has lovely wavy brown hair. She must be a quadroon.1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction ii. iii. 47 Now that we have a Miss America who is black or who, at least, can pass for a fairly pronounced quadroon, I suppose that the chiliastic inevitability of taxes and death might be called into question. 2. By extension: any person of comparably mixed ancestry; a plant or animal obtained by crossing in such proportions. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross mongrel1558 hybrid1601 centaur1606 mulatto1664 half-strain1673 cross1761 cross-breed1774 first cross1793 double-cross1810 quadroon1811 intercross1859 outcross1882 reciprocal1901 filial generation1902 monohybrid1902 vicinist1905 first filial (or F₁) generation1909 polyhybrid1910 back-cross1919 second filial (or F₂) generation1938 1811 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 6 346 Whether a man were a half-new Christian, or a quateron, or a half-quateron..the Hebrew leaven was in the blood. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 29 Each person's caste is decided by the quality of the blood, which shows itself..at first sight. Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quatroon or octoon, is sufficient to raise one from the position of a serf. 1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species 72 Koelreuter artificially fertilised hybrid flowers..and thus obtained a vegetable quadroon. 1909 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 81 145 The quadroons and other irregular crosses [of moths] have next to be briefly dealt with. B. adj. attributive. That is a quadroon; having one black grandparent or (formerly) great-grandparent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black mulatto1677 quadroon1748 dingy1785 yellow1796 high brown1911 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Indians, born of Whites and Mestizos. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Negroes, born of Whites and Mulattos. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vi. 126 A young and beautiful Quadroon girl. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 14 A marriage between a white planter and a quadroon girl. 1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 60 A pretty..mulatto, or rather quadroon girl. 1915 J. R. B. Love Aborigines 32 The quadroon child is white, and should be treated as such. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 150/1 In the late 1700s and early 1800s quadroon women—those born to a mulatto mother and white father—sought to become mistresses of upper-class white men. Compounds quadroon ball n. now historical (esp. in New Orleans) a ball held for quadroon women and white men. ΚΠ 1805 J. F. Watson Diary in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 236 These colored women have their weekly balls, (called quartroon balls) at which none but white gentlemen attend. 1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes iii. 19 I saw the same old man, at a quadroon ball a few years ago. 1948 Chicago Tribune 8 Feb. (Grafic Mag.) 18/3 Most notorious of the carnival affairs, was the Quadroon ball, given by the young men of the town for their mistresses and friends. 1998 F. Flagg Welcome to World, Baby Girl! 410 Philipe Le Guarde..had met her and fallen in love with her at one of the world-famous quadroon balls held on Bourbon Street. † quadroon black n. Obsolete rare a person with one black and one quadroon parent. ΚΠ 1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Q[uadroon]. black, one parent of a quadroon black is a pure negro and the other is white, save that he or she has had a negro grandfather or grandmother. The mixture in this case is 7-8ths negro and 1-8th white. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1707
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