Crossword clues for octoroon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octoroon \Oc`to*roon"\, n. [L. octo eight + -roon, as in quadroon.] The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (label en dated) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
Usage examples of "octoroon".
Most of those gentlemen at the subscription ball tonight would slip along that corridor at the earliest possible moment to meet their mulatto or quadroon or octoroon mistresses.
And even the most beautiful and fair-skinned octoroon could not go long without the wealth of a protector.
Livia, getting her information through the Rampart Street or octoroon side of the clan, said it was because they were getting none of the resulting money, an opinion with which January could find no fault, though Charles-Louis Trepagier fulminated to Aunt Alicia Picard in terms of letting family land be lived upon by sales americaines.
If you look at the skipper, you will see that he is an octoroon, or something between a mulatto and a white man, and in my opinion he is not a cheerful worker on that side of the 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.
Gregory Duville was intrigued by this young woman and had indeed been preoccupied with thoughts of her, much to the displeasure of his octoroon mistress.
Between an octoroon and a creole a European can never tell the difference.
She thought of the beautiful high-yellow woman at the church picnic, and the octoroon in the red dress at the supper club.
She was lighter, more octoroon than quadroon, and the mica flashes of her skin had become odd glows when she moved, as though reflecting rosy spotlights.
His fireplaces seemed to give no heat, a tryst with an octoroon girl no solace.
Neither Garp nor Helen could ever have imagined Jillsy Sloper, the offspring of a white person and a quadroonwhich made Jillsy an octoroon, or one eighth Negro.
Groups of men, Creole and white and quadroon and octoroon and mulatto, from Lafayette to New Orleans spoke of relatives succumbing and the Blessed Mother giving up on them.
In this book the story of an Octoroon family is put forth in all the pathos and tragedy that is the lot of so many Negroes who belong wholly to neither race.
The waitress at my place was young and lovely, probably an octoroon, her license number tattooed on her pale cream forehead.
The orderly is an octoroon, and he was sick with it when he got back to the falls.