English Dictionary

octoroon

noun

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry. / (dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

She was the daughter of an octoroon and a white man.

意味（1）

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes—boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,—and to call themselves Españolos, and to hold property, if they can get any.

意味（2）

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male

Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman

Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man

Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman