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quintroons

quintroons is the plural of quintroon.

Meaning of quintroon

Noun

quintroon (plural quintroons)

  1. (dated) The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
  2. (dated) 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

Questions about quintroons

What is quintroons the plural of?
Quintroons is the plural of quintroon.

Words near quintroons in the dictionary

  1. Quintrell Downs
  2. Quintrells
  3. quintrigintillion
  4. quintrillion
  5. quintroon
  6. quintroons
  7. quints
  8. quintuplation
  9. quintuple
  10. quintuple double
  11. quintuple doubles

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