Quadroon Definition

kwŏ-dro͝on
noun
A person who has one black grandparent; child of a mulatto and a white.
Webster's New World
adjective

(dated) Having three-fourths Caucasian descent and one-fourth African descent.

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Other Word Forms of Quadroon

Noun

Singular:
quadroon
Plural:
quadroons

Origin of Quadroon

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of Spanish cuarterón from cuarto quarter from Latin quārtus kwetwer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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