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OCTOROON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("octoroon" is a kind of...):
mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
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