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Definition of Octoroons
1. octoroon [n] - See also: octoroon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octoroons
Literary usage of Octoroons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spain in America, 1450-1580 by Edward Gaylord Bourne (1904)
"The extremes of the mixtures between whites and negroes were, therefore,
octoroons (seven-eighths white), and black zambos (seven-eighths black).1 The ..."
2. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... be asked regarding the racial future:— 1 The United States census returns do
not attempt to discriminate between mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons; ..."
3. Autobiography of George Dewey: Admiral of the Navy by George Dewey (1913)
"The girls, being octoroons and having the peculiarly white complexion of many
octoroons, were, as the auctioneer declared, whiter than his own daughter. ..."
4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"12, for two weeks; Gay New Yorkers in "Gay Girls of Gotham," Sept. 26; Isham's
octoroons, Sept. ... 28; and Isham's octoroons, Jan. 4, 1897. ..."
5. The Ills of the South: Or, Related Causes Hostile to the General Prosperity by Charles H. Otken (1894)
"Of the black population, 8 per cent, are in the North. The ambitious, aspiring
portion of this people are either mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons, ..."
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