Usually means: One-quarter African, three-quarters European.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. quadroon: Merriam-Webster
  2. quadroon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quadroon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quadroon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quadroon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quadroon, quadroon: Wordnik
  7. quadroon: Wiktionary
  8. quadroon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. quadroon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. quadroon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Quadroon, quadroon: Dictionary.com
  12. quadroon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Quadroon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Quadroon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. quadroon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Quadroon: Rhymezone
  17. Quadroon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. quadroon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Quadroon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. quadroon: FreeDictionary.org
  21. quadroon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. quadroon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quadroon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Quadroon: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUADROON, QUADROON, QUADROON: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. quadroon: Genealogy Glossary
  3. quadroon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quadroon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Quadroon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quadroon)

▸ noun:  (dated, chiefly historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
▸ adjective:  (dated, chiefly historical) Of or related to quadroons.

Similar:
quatroon, quarteroon, quateron, quarteron, quinteroon, quinteron, quintoon, quintroon, hexadecaroon, Metis, more...

Opposite:
octoroon

Types:
octoroon, hexadecaroon, duodecaroon, more...

Adjectives:
beautiful, young, handsome, pretty, little, free, white, eyed, bright, light, comely
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Similar:
quatroon, quarteroon, quateron, quarteron, quinteroon, quinteron, quintoon, quintroon, hexadecaroon, Metis, more...

Opposite:
octoroon

Types:
octoroon, hexadecaroon, duodecaroon, more...

Adjectives:
beautiful, young, handsome, pretty, little, free, white, eyed, bright, light, comely



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