octoroon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

   “There would have been no legal barrier to their union; there would have been no frightful menace to white supremacy in the marriage of the negro and the octoroon: the drop of dark blood bridged the chasm.”

2. isim 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 Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman”