Associations to the word «Octoroon»

Wiktionary

OCTOROON, noun. (dated) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope