QUADROON

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• QUADROON (noun)
  The noun QUADROON has 1 sense:

1. an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black

  Familiarity information: QUADROON used as a noun is very rare.

• QUADROON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("quadroon" 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)

 Context examples 

This was something altogether new, and it proved a grand success, for Mrs. March couldn't get over her surprise, and insisted on shaking hands with every one of the featherless birds, from tall Franz and Emil to the little quadroon, who had the sweetest voice of all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)