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quad·roon
(kwŏ-dro͞on′)n.
A person having white ancestors except for one black grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive.
[Alteration of Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto, quarter, from Latin quārtus; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]
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quadroon
(kwɒˈdruːn)n
(Peoples) old-fashioned offensive the offspring of a Mulatto and a White person; a person who is one-quarter Black
[C18: from Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter, from Latin quartus]
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quad•roon
(kwɒˈdrun)n.
a person having one-fourth black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a white.
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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 |
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quadroon
n → Viertelschwarze(r) mf, → Viertelneger(in) m(f) (neg!), → Terzerone m (spec), → Terzeronin f (spec)
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