Definition of "quadroons" []

• Plural form of quadroon. (noun)

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• ""quadroons" and "octoroons" with Indonesians, and even here and there with Negritoes."
• "Of "Crescent City" (1984), a tale set in New Orleans about a Jewish family during the Civil War, novelist Gay Courter wrote in The Washington Post: "It's all here: moss and mansions, languid afternoons and clandestine evenings, repressed old maids and irresistible quadroons, the glamour and gore of war, chance encounters and missed opportunities.""
• "These were half-breeds, quadroons, octaroons whom whites considered tainted by their black blood, but who were afforded and took special status and privilege due to the light skin they wore."