quintroon

English

Etymology

From Spanish quinterón (“the offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).

Noun

quintroon (plural quintroons)

  1. (dated) The offspring of an octoroon and a white person.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for quintroon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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