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quatroon

quatroon is the obsolete form of quadroon.

Meaning of quadroon

Noun

quadroon (plural quadroons)

  1. (dated, historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
    • 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...1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 47, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC

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Forms of quatroon

pluralquatroons

Questions about quatroon

What is quatroon the obsolete form of?
Quatroon is the obsolete form of quadroon.

Words near quatroon in the dictionary

  1. quatro
  2. quatrocentism
  3. quatrocentist
  4. quatrocentists
  5. quatrocento
  6. quatroon
  7. quatroons
  8. quatros
  9. quatrumvirate
  10. quatrumvirates
  11. quats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quatroon (page history and authors); quadroon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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