Definition of "octoroon" []

• A person whose ancestry is one-eighth Black. (noun)

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• "One house in particular was called the octoroon house."
• "The octoroon was a large man, of about the size of the third lieutenant, and he could have made a good deal of mischief if he had been so disposed."
• "President, and Declaration of Independence author as his slave, concubine, mother of his unacknowledged illegitimate "octoroon" children, etc."