quadroon

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
quadroon
    n 1: an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who
         is one-quarter black
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Quadroon \Quad*roon"\, n. [F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See
   {Quarter} a fourth part, and cf. {Quarteron}.]
   The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person
   quarter-blooded. [Written also {quarteron}, {quarteroon}, and
   {quateron}.]
   [1913 Webster]
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
QUADROON. A person who is descended from a white person, and another person 
who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood. 2 Bailey, 558. 
Vide Mulatto.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "quadroon":
      Cape Colored, Eurasian, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbreed,
      griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow,
      hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis,
      metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee,
      octoroon, plumcot, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass,
      zebrule
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