quadroon
Noun
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Noun
quadroon (plural quadroons)
- (dated) A person of three-fourths Caucasian descent and one fourth African descent.
- (Australia, dated) A person of three-quarters Aboriginal descent and one quarter Caucasian descent; a person of one quarter Aboriginal descent.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120
- Diana was a black quadroon, her father being a blackfellow.
- He was the father of four quadroons who were regarded as half-castes because the lighter part of their mother's blood was Asiatic, and he was only too well aware of what their future would be should he desert them.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120
quadroon (not comparable)
- (dated) Having three-fourths Caucasian descent and one-fourth African descent.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Quadroon Girl”:
- Before them, with her face upraised,
- In timid attitude,
- Like one half curious, half amazed,
- A Quadroon maiden stood.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Quadroon Girl”:
- German: Terzerone, Terzeronin
- Spanish: cuarterón, cuarterona
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