quadroon
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- noun
- /kwɑːˈdruːn/
- Slur
- Our cook was a light-skinned quadroon woman who said she was sixty, but I thought she was closer to seventy.
- quadroons and octoroons
- quadroon or a mulatto
Examples
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Paul knows nothing of his parentage; he was raised by a quadroon woman and received a mysterious stipend all his life, allowing for his education in France and his mostly comfortable married life.
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The quadroon ball is for white men and quadroon women only.
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No quadroon could have taken such a course; it was foreign to the quadroon nature.
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There was a wide choice for the son of a quadroon slave.
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The visit of a European duke to an antebellum quadroon ball is a historical incident recounted in various travel narratives.
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In this respect, states the narrator, referring to the free people's general coolness, "Paul Marchand differed from the average quadroon" (60).
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Mating these in turn with white persons, the next generation would be composed of one-half quadroons, or persons one-fourth Negro.
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Other threads of the plot, involving the black Clmence and the quadroon Palmyre, similarly illustrate the oppressive power exercised by the Creoles.
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Historically, a quadroon was limited in social standing due to their mixed racial heritage.
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In the 19th century, a quadroon might have been invited to exclusive social events in Southern society.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word quadroon comes from a root quad- meaning 'one fourth' and is like the English word quarter, so it was used for a person who was 'one-quarter' Black. Today the term is considered outdated and offensive and should not be used.