Definition of "quarteroon" []

• Obsolete form of quadroon. (noun)

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• "The child of a white man by a mulatto woman was called a quarteroon, -- the second degree; from a white father and a quarteroon mother was born the male tierceroon, -- the third degree; the union of a white man with a female tierceroon produced the metif, -- the fourth degree of color."
• "I never understood why there were quadroon and octroon categories but no three-quarteroon category."
• "A quarteroon pet of Ormond, -- just spinning into fashionable and luscious insensibility, -- fell from my arms into those of her master; and while I apologized for the freak, I charged it altogether to the witchcraft of his wit and wine."