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quadroon

N ลูกผสม ระหว่าง เชื้อสาย นิโกร  25\%ผสม คน ขาว  75 luk-pa-som-ra-wang-chue-sai-ni-ko

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUADROON

n.[L. quadra, quatuor. ] In Spanish America, the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man; a person quarter-blooded.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUADROON

Quad *roon ", n. Etym: [F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See Quarter a fourth part, and cf. Quarteron. ]

 

Defn: The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quadroon

quad roon |kwäˈdro͞on kwɑˈdrun | noun a person whose parents are a mulatto and a white person and who is therefore one-quarter black by descent. ORIGIN early 18th cent. (earlier as quarteron ): via French from Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter, from Latin quartus; later assimilated to words beginning with quadri- .

 

Oxford Dictionary

quadroon

quadroon |kwɒˈdruːn | noun dated a person who is one-quarter black by descent. ORIGIN early 18th cent. (earlier as quarteron ): via French from Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter , from Latin quartus; later assimilated to words beginning with quadri- .