Quadroon

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:24:56

Quad*roon" (?), n. [F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See Quarter a fourth part, and cf. Quarteron.]

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

[Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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