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quadroon

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8 lettersPronunciation /kwɑːˈdɹuːn/Part of speech nounSorted adnooqruStarts with QEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black

Word origin

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

Used in a sentence

  • Before them, with her face upraised, In timid attitude, Like one half curious, half amazed, A Quadroon maiden stood.
  • "What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue?" said a spruce quadroon chambermaid, dangling, as she spoke, a pair of coral ear-drops.
  • The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove, […]

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