Usually means: One-sixteenth Black ancestry person.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (quintroon)

noun:  (dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
noun:  (dated) The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.

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