quadroon

noun · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
quadroons
  1. 1.

    (dated, historical)(dated, chiefly historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.

    1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120 https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb 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.

Tính từ

adjective
  1. 1.

    (dated, historical, not comparable)(dated, chiefly historical) Of or related to quadroons.

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mulattoquarter-casteperson of mixed race See mulatto

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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). cuarteron.

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