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quadroon

noun
/kwɑːˈdɹuːn/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from quartus
  2. derived from cuarterón

Definitions

  1. A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.

  2. Of or related to quadroons.

    • 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, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quadroon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA