quintroon
quintroon noun: the offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
Noun
quintroon (plural quintroons)
- The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
- The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.
- 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.1828, Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, page 183
- "A samboe," says he, "is the nearest remove from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee...1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
Forms of quintroon
| plural | quintroons |
|---|---|
| alternative form | quinteron |
| alternative form | quinteroon |
| alternative form | quintoon |
Origin of quintroon
Borrowed from Spanish quinterón (“offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).
Questions about quintroon
- What does quintroon mean?
- Quintroon means the offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
- What part of speech is quintroon?
- Quintroon is a noun.
- What is the plural of quintroon?
- The plural of quintroon is quintroons.
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