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Webster 1913 Edition


Quadroon

Quad-roon′

,
Noun.
[F.
quarteron
, or Sp.
cuarteron
. See
Quarter
a fourth part, and cf.
Quarteron
.]
The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
[Written also
quarteron
,
quarteroon
, and
quateron
.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Quadroon

QUADROON'

,
Noun.
[L. quadra, quatuor.] In Spanish America, the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man; a person quarter-blooded.