quadroon

quad·roon

Q0009700 (kwŏ-dro͞on′)n. 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.

[Alteration of Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto, quarter, from Latin quārtus; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

quadroon

(kwɒˈdruːn) n (Peoples) old-fashioned offensive the offspring of a Mulatto and a White person; a person who is one-quarter Black[C18: from Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter, from Latin quartus]

quad•roon

(kwɒˈdrun)

n. a person having one-fourth black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a white. [1640–50; alter. of Sp cuarterón, derivative of cuarto fourth< Latin quārtus; see -oon]

Thesaurus

Noun

quadroon - an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter blackarchaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expressionmixed-blood - a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races

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noun an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent

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