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Of or related to quadroons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical
Examples
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120 https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb Diana was a black quadroon, her father being a blackfellow. He was the father of four quadroons who were regarded as half-castes because the lighter part of their mother's blood was Asiatic, and he was only too well aware of what their future would be should he desert them.
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an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mixed-blood
From Spanish cuarterón (“3⁄4 white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
квартерон
(kvarteron)
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Catalan:
quarteró
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Catalan:
quarterona
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Danish:
kvadron
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Dutch:
quarterone
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Dutch:
quadrone
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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French:
quarteron
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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German:
Quarterone
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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German:
Quarteronin
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Hungarian:
negyedvér
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Ido:
quaterona
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Polish:
Mulat
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Polish:
Mulatka
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Spanish:
cuarterón
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
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Spanish:
cuarterona
— three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent
