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.
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