octoroon
Noun
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Noun
octoroon (plural octoroons)
- (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.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 10, page 50,
- (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
- Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
- 2005 Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization ↗, page 353:
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