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Definition: Quadroon |
QuadroonNoun1. An offspring of a Mulatto and a White parent; a person who is one-quarter Black. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Quadroon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Etymology: Quadroon \Quad*roon"\, noun. [French expression quarteron, or Spanish cuarteron. See Quarter fourth part, and compare to Quarteron.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Quadroon |
| English words defined with "Quadroon": Mestee, Metisse ♦ Octoroon ♦ Quarteroon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Quadroon": Quintroon. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This was part of a race classification used in the Spanish and French colonies in the New World, and to some extent also used in the Southern United States in the 19th century.
Quadroons were considered "colored" and often subject to slavery in the colonial era.
See also: mulatto, octoroon, multiracial
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quadroon."
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Movie/TV Titles | Quadroon (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quadroon | 14 |
ball quadroon | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Quadroon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | metis me 1/4 gjak afrikan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | човек с четвърт негърска кръв, квартерон (quarter-blood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kvadron. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | viertelneger, terzeronin, terzerone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μιγάσ κατά το μισό αιθίοπασ, τέκνο μιγάδοσ και λευκού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | negyedvér. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adroonquay quarteirão (block, city block, quarter). (various references) квартерон. (various references) osoba s četvrtinom crnačke krvi. (various references) cuarterón (quarter pound). (various references) kvarteron. (various references) zenci melezi (mulatto), dörtte bir zenci melezi. (various references) квартерон. (various references) vật lại một phần tư, người lai một phần tư, người lai đen một phần tư. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Quadroon": quadroons. (additional references) | |
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"Quadroon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: qquadroon, Quadragno, quadro, Quadrum, Quarafon, quardo, Querzoni, Quotron. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-o-o-q-r-u" | |
-2 letters: around. | |
-3 letters: adorn, donor, doura, odour, radon, rondo, round. | |
-4 letters: darn, dona, door, dour, dura, durn, duro, nard, nurd, odor, orad, ordo, quad, quod, rand, road, roan, rood, undo. | |
-5 letters: ado, and, don, dor, dun, duo, nod, noo, nor, oar, ora, oud, our, qua, rad, ran, rod, run, udo, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-o-o-q-r-u" | |
+1 letter: quadroons. | |
+4 letters: conquistador. | |
+5 letters: conquistadors. | |
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