Associations to the word «Octoroon»
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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.