English Dictionary

quintroon

noun

(dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black / (dated) The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black

She was proud of her heritage as a quintroon.

意味（1）

(dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black

意味（2）

(dated) The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black

Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.