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Octaroon

Octaroon \Oc`ta*roon"\, n. See Octoroon.

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octaroon

n. (alternative spelling of octoroon English)

Usage examples of "octaroon".

The American Exchange was a good place to buy a field hand or a cook, dark-skinned as you please, but for a fancy girl, one of the young dusky octaroon beauties that Julian preferred, you had to come to the French Exchange.

This place had filled her head with voodoo and jasmine in the dark and with the essence of an octaroon girl who was transformed, by the act of her mother, into the undead and who was torn, by her love for a human, between two irreconcilable worlds.

The alluring octaroon housekeeper had been making eyes at him since the moment of his arrival.

After the two old hired guns took a place they were joined by a whiskey drummer from El Paso and a smartly dressed octaroon who looked to be either a pimp or a gambler.

He knew she was already as good as dead, and unlike the octaroon, he had no need to make her suffer unnecessary humiliations.

White men picked their quadroon and octaroon mistresses at such balls, set them up for a season or for life, depending on their whim and on what their wives would allow.