Quadroon definitions

kwŏ-dro͝on'
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.
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A person who has one black grandparent; child of a mulatto and a white.
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(dated) A person of three-fourths Caucasian descent and one fourth African descent.
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(dated) Having three-fourths Caucasian descent and one-fourth African descent.
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Origin of quadroon

Alteration of Spanish cuarterón (“offspring of European and mestizo"), from cuarto (“fourth"), from Latin quartus (“fourth")