- Octaroon
- Octaroon \Oc`ta*roon"\, n. See {Octoroon}. [1913 Webster]
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Octaroon
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octaroon — var. of OCTOROON. * * * octaroon see octoroon … Useful english dictionary
octaroon — n. octoroon, offensive term for a person of mixed race who has one eighth Black ancestry … English contemporary dictionary
octaroon — noun variant spelling of octoroon … English new terms dictionary
Quadroon — Image from 1899 book about Spanish American War Quadroon, and the associated words octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed race, generally of African and Caucasian ancestry, but… … Wikipedia
-oon — conventional in 15c. 17c. English to add emphasis to borrowed French nouns ending in stressed on; also used to represent It. one, Sp. ón; all from L. onem. Used in rare cases to form English words, e.g. SPITTOON (Cf. spittoon), OCTAROON (Cf.… … Etymology dictionary
Tom Shows — were stage plays and musicals based on the 1852 novel Uncle Tom s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement… … Wikipedia
octoroon — É‘ktÉ™ ruËn / É’k n. octaroon, offensive term for a person of mixed race who has one eighth Black ancestry … English contemporary dictionary
octoroons — É‘ktÉ™ ruËn / É’k n. octaroon, offensive term for a person of mixed race who has one eighth Black ancestry … English contemporary dictionary
octoroon — [ˌɒktə ru:n] (also octaroon) noun dated a person who is one eighth black by descent. Origin C19: from octo , on the pattern of quadroon … English new terms dictionary
half-breed — n half caste, half blood, crossbreed, hybrid, cross, mixed blood, mongrel; mulatto, mestizo, Ladino, sambo, Eurasian, Anglo Indian; creole, quadroon, mustee, octaroon, Inf. high yellow … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
