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

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