octoroon

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  • Noun:
    an offspring of a Quadroon and a White parent; a person who is one-eighth Black

Word Origin

octoroon (n.)
1861, irregular formation from Latin octo "eight" (see eight) + suffix abstracted from quadroon (in which the suffix actually is -oon). Offspring of a quadroon and a white; so called for having one-eighth Negro blood.

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