Quadroon

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadroon \Quad*roon"\, n. [F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See
     {Quarter} a fourth part, and cf. {Quarteron}.]
     The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person
     quarter-blooded. [Written also {quarteron}, {quarteroon}, and
     {quateron}.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Quadroon
       n : an offspring of a Mulatto and a White parent; a person who
           is one-quarter Black

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "quadroon":
     Cape Colored, Eurasian, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbreed,
     griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow,
     hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis,
     metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee,
     octoroon, plumcot, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass,
     zebrule
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  QUADROON. A person who is descended from a white person, and another person 
  who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood. 2 Bailey, 558. 
  Vide Mulatto.