quadroon
PERSON WITH ONE QUARTER AFRICAN AND THREE QUARTERS EUROPEAN ANCESTRY
Octoroon; Quintroon; Hexadecaroon; Octaroon; Cuarterón; Octoroom; Quadroons; Octoroons; Quintroons; Hexadecaroons; Quarteroon; Terceron
[kw?'dru:n]
¦ noun a person whose parents are a mulatto and a white person and who is therefore one-quarter black by descent.
Origin
C18: via Fr. from Sp.
cuarteron, from
cuarto 'quarter'; later assimilated to words beginning with
quadri-.