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OCTOROON
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• OCTOROON (noun)
The noun OCTOROON has 1 sense:
1. an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
Familiarity information: OCTOROON used as a noun is very rare.
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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