quadroon (redirected from quadroons)

quad·roon  (kw-drn)

n.

A person having one-quarter Black ancestry. See Usage Note at octoroon.

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[Alteration of Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto, quarter, from Latin qurtus; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

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quadroon [kwɒˈdruːn]

n

(Social Science / Peoples) the offspring of a Mulatto and a White; a person who is one-quarter Black

[from Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter, from Latin quartus]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

quadroon - an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression mixed-blood - a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races

Translations

quadroon [kwɒˈdruːn] N → cuarterón m

quadroon

n → Viertelschwarze(r) mf, → Viertelneger(in) m(f) (neg!), → Terzerone m (spec), → Terzeronin f (spec)