a person who has one black grandparent; child of a mulatto and a white
Origin of quadroon
Spanish cuarterón from cuarto, a fourth from Classical Latin quartus: see quartquadroon
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quadroon
noun
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.
Origin of quadroon
Alteration of Spanish cuarterón from cuarto quarter from Latin quārtus ; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural quadroons)
Adjective
(not comparable)
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