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单词 quadroon
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quadroonn.adj.

Brit. /kwɒˈdruːn/, /kwəˈdruːn/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrun/
Forms:

α. 1700s quatron, 1700s–1800s quateron, 1700s– quarteron, 1800s quarteroon, 1800s quartroon, 1800s quatroon, 1900s– quateroon.

β. 1700s quaderoon, 1700s quadron, 1700s– quadroon.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish cuarterón.
Etymology: < Spanish cuarterón person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter non-white (originally specifically with reference to a person of indigenous American descent) (1605 or earlier; 13th cent. in sense ‘one quarter’) < cuarto fourth, quarter ( < classical Latin quartus : see quart n.2) + -erón , suffix. In β. forms probably by association with words in quadri- comb. form or quadru- comb. form. Compare French quarteron (1722; < Spanish).
Now chiefly considered offensive.
A. n.
1. A person who is by descent three-quarters white and one-quarter black; a person with one black grandparent. Formerly also: †a person with one black great-grandparent (obsolete rare). Cf. terceroon n.
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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
α.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xlvi The inhabitants of Jamaica are for the most part Europeans..who are the Masters, and Indians, Negros, Mulatos, Alcatrazes, Mestises, Quarterons, &c. who are the Slaves.
1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. iv. 31 Next to these [sc. Mulattoes] are the Tercerones, produced from a White and a Mulatto... After these follow the Quarterones, proceeding from a white and a Terceron.
1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 98 Castaing is described as a small dark mulatto, and La Chaise as a Quateron.
1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. vi. 251 You always liked Anna, the quarteroon, better than me.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 304 Your pale-white Creoles,..and your yellow Quarteroons.
1938 C. L. R. James Black Jacobins ii. 27 The child of the white and the Mulatto woman was a quarteron with 96 parts white and 32 parts black. But the quarteron could be produced by the white and the marabou in the proportion of 88 to 40, [etc.].
1992 M. Kurlansky Continent of Islands ii. 48 There were more than a dozen subclassifications. A mulatto and a white made a quateroon.
β. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 296 The Samboe dark, and the Mulatto brown, The Mæsti fair, the well-limbed Quaderoon.1819 W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. 295 Europeans and Tercerons produce Quarterons or Quadroons.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 195 The progeny of a white and a negro is a mulatto, or half and half—of a white and mulatto, a quadroon, or one quarter black.1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 178 That brute goes with a quadroon to a restaurant.1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 68 Katrina is fair and has lovely wavy brown hair. She must be a quadroon.1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction ii. iii. 47 Now that we have a Miss America who is black or who, at least, can pass for a fairly pronounced quadroon, I suppose that the chiliastic inevitability of taxes and death might be called into question.
2. By extension: any person of comparably mixed ancestry; a plant or animal obtained by crossing in such proportions. Now rare.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross
mongrel1558
hybrid1601
centaur1606
mulatto1664
half-strain1673
cross1761
cross-breed1774
first cross1793
double-cross1810
quadroon1811
intercross1859
outcross1882
reciprocal1901
filial generation1902
monohybrid1902
vicinist1905
first filial (or F₁) generation1909
polyhybrid1910
back-cross1919
second filial (or F₂) generation1938
1811 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 6 346 Whether a man were a half-new Christian, or a quateron, or a half-quateron..the Hebrew leaven was in the blood.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 29 Each person's caste is decided by the quality of the blood, which shows itself..at first sight. Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quatroon or octoon, is sufficient to raise one from the position of a serf.
1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species 72 Koelreuter artificially fertilised hybrid flowers..and thus obtained a vegetable quadroon.
1909 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 81 145 The quadroons and other irregular crosses [of moths] have next to be briefly dealt with.
B. adj.
attributive. That is a quadroon; having one black grandparent or (formerly) great-grandparent.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black
mulatto1677
quadroon1748
dingy1785
yellow1796
high brown1911
1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Indians, born of Whites and Mestizos.
1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Negroes, born of Whites and Mulattos.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vi. 126 A young and beautiful Quadroon girl.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 14 A marriage between a white planter and a quadroon girl.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 60 A pretty..mulatto, or rather quadroon girl.
1915 J. R. B. Love Aborigines 32 The quadroon child is white, and should be treated as such.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 150/1 In the late 1700s and early 1800s quadroon women—those born to a mulatto mother and white father—sought to become mistresses of upper-class white men.

Compounds

quadroon ball n. now historical (esp. in New Orleans) a ball held for quadroon women and white men.
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1805 J. F. Watson Diary in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 236 These colored women have their weekly balls, (called quartroon balls) at which none but white gentlemen attend.
1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes iii. 19 I saw the same old man, at a quadroon ball a few years ago.
1948 Chicago Tribune 8 Feb. (Grafic Mag.) 18/3 Most notorious of the carnival affairs, was the Quadroon ball, given by the young men of the town for their mistresses and friends.
1998 F. Flagg Welcome to World, Baby Girl! 410 Philipe Le Guarde..had met her and fallen in love with her at one of the world-famous quadroon balls held on Bourbon Street.
quadroon black n. Obsolete rare a person with one black and one quadroon parent.
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1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Q[uadroon]. black, one parent of a quadroon black is a pure negro and the other is white, save that he or she has had a negro grandfather or grandmother. The mixture in this case is 7-8ths negro and 1-8th white.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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