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Definition of Octoroon
1. Noun. An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black.
Definition of Octoroon
1. n. The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Definition of Octoroon
1. Noun. someone having one-eighth black ancestry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Octoroon
1. a person of one-eighth black ancestry [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octoroon
Literary usage of Octoroon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground by Levi Coffin (1880)
"AMONG the many interesting cases that came under my personal notice while engaged
in efforts to aid the slave, that of Louisa Picquet, the octoroon, ..."
2. The Career of Dion Boucicault by Townsend Walsh (1915)
"... stagecraft— Agnes Robertson's gift for pathos—Success of " The octoroon"—Its
tactful treatment of the slavery question—Jefferson's hit as Salem Scudder. ..."
3. The Lost Cause Regained by Edward Alfred Pollard (1868)
"... between Negroes and Whites—The octoroon absolutely sterile—Uniformity of the
type of the Negro—The excavations of Cham" pollion—The Religious ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1862)
"octoroon drew away from Violet, and was inclined to challenge Bessie, but the
Chapman, the turning point, being reached it was necessary to prepare for the ..."
5. Bronze: A Book of Verse by Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1922)
"... THE octoroon One drop of midnight in the dawn of life's pulsating stream Marks
her an alien from her kind, a shade amid its gleam; Forevermore her step ..."
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