Quintroon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quintroon is a noun meaning (dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
Meaning
(dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
More Meanings
- (dated) The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.
Example Sentences
Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.
Word Forms
- quintroons
- quinteron
- quinteroon
- quintoon
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quinteron, quintoon, quinteroon, metis, quarteron, quateron.
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