OCTOROON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("octoroon" is a kind of...):

mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

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