octaroon

Noun

octoroon (plural octoroons)

1. (dated, historical) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
   • Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes—boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,—and to call themselves Españolos, and to...1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. XIII
2. (dated, historical) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
   • Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
     Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman
     Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man
     Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman2005, Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization, page 353