OCTOROON meaning: One-eighth Black ancestry person

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octoroon: Merriam-Webster
octoroon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
octoroon: Collins English Dictionary
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octoroon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
octoroon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Octoroon, octoroon: Dictionary.com
octoroon: Online Etymology Dictionary
Octoroon, The Octoroon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Octoroon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
octoroon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Octoroon: Rhymezone
Octoroon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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octoroon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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octoroon: Genealogy Glossary
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Octoroon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
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Definitions from Wiktionary (octoroon)

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

Opposite:

non-octoroon, quadroon, mulatto, biracial

Phrases:

The Octoroon, more...

Adjectives:

beautiful, tragic, light, west, indian, handsome, young, male, slender, old, famous

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