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quadroon en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /kwɑːˈdɹuːn/

Etymology

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

Meanings

1. (dated, historical, not-comparable) Of or related to quadroons.
   • Before them, with her face upraised, In timid attitude, Like one half curious, half amazed, A Quadroon maiden stood. 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Quadroon Girl:
   • "What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue?" said a spruce quadroon chambermaid, dangling, as she spoke, a pair of coral ear-drops. 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XVII, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
   • The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove, […] 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 40:

Translations (15)

fr quarteron (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · pl Mulatka (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · de Quarteronin (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · de Quarterone (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · hu negyedvér (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · ca quarterona (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · es cuarterona (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · nl quarterone (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · da kvadron (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · io quaterona (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · ca quarteró (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · pl Mulat (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · es cuarterón (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · bg квартерон (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent) · nl quadrone (three fourths Caucasian and one fourth African in descent)

quadroon en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kwɑːˈdɹuːn/

Etymology

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

Meanings

1. (dated, historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120 https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb Diana was a black quadroon, her father being a blackfellow. He was the father of four quadroons who were regarded as half-castes because the lighter part of their mother's blood was Asiatic, and he was only too well aware of what their future would be should he desert them.
   • There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the ‘Bhaer-garten’, though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school. 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 47, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

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mulatto (person of mixed race) · quarter-caste