octoroon
Noun

octoroon (plural octoroons)

  1. (dated or historical, now, offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 10, page 50,
      Grandmother Baxter was a quadroon or an octoroon, or in any case she was nearly white.
  2. (dated or historical, now, offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
    • 2005 Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization ↗, page 353:
      Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
      Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman
      Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man
      Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman
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