单词 | octoon |
释义 | † octoonn. Obsolete. = octoroon n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person mulatto1591 mulat1678 mustee1699 quadroon1707 quintroon1769 terceroon1772 blue skin1788 metif1805 musteefinoa1818 Morisco1819 octoon1840 griff1850 octoroon1854 Conchy Joe1888 mustard seed1926 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 97 The least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quatroon or octoon [1869 octoroon], is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 115 An octaroon (with an r in it which..has slipped in merely from a fanciful analogy to quadroon, while the proper form would be ‘Octoon’), is the offspring of a quadroon and a white.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1840 |
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