Octoroon

Word OCTOROON
Character 8
Hyphenation oc to roon
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Octoroon"

What do we mean by octoroon?

A person having white ancestors except for one black great-grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive. noun

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a person having one eighth negro blood. noun

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee. noun

Someone having one-eighth black ancestry noun

An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black noun

Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

A person having one-eighth black ancestry; the offspring of a quadroon and a white Urban Dictionary

Human being of 1/8 african-american origin. Urban Dictionary

Americans of mixed ancestry. Mixed European/African Americans who appear European. Many are considered Caucasian of European background, who are in fact of mixed European and African ancestry (albeit 2-3 generations past). Rarely mistaken for "Spanish". Whom are clearly mixed with Spanish/African/Indian Urban Dictionary

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The word "octoroon" in example sentences

One house in particular was called the octoroon house. ❋ Unknown (1924)

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. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

President, and Declaration of Independence author as his slave, concubine, mother of his unacknowledged illegitimate "octoroon" children, etc. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

I speculate that the word used in that other sense is a typical Oz contraction, of "octoroon" (cf. "ocky", also in AND, for "octopus"), ignorantly and locally applied to East Asiatics instead of "A person of one-eighth Aboriginal descent" (AND). ❋ Unknown (2005)

She tells of an "octoroon" who "passed" as white, only to be killed by her husband when found out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Slide 12: 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson • Homer Plessy (an "octoroon" could not ride in white railway car) • Separate but equal • One drop rule of hypodescent • Ratification of spatial segregation  legal enforcement of Jim Crow laws 12 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Video: analysis from the cake wrecks blog. tags: tales of adventure and octoroon frosting ❋ Unknown (2009)

He subsequently stole a beautiful octoroon slave, Cassy, sold her under a false name, assisted her subsequent evasion, and with the proceeds of the sale fled with her across the ice-floes of the Ohio river, pursued by slave-catchers who shot him in the buttock; however, he succeeded in effecting his escape, and Cassy's, with the timely assistance of the then Congress-man Abraham Lincoln. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

She was educated-convent-bred, possibly-and spoke perfect English and better French, her manners were impeccable, and she was as beautiful as only a high-bred octoroon fancy can be, with a figurehead like St Cecilia and a body that would have brought a stone idol howling off its pedestal. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

In 1890, at the height of the Jim Crow laws and kind of an obsession with defining what black people were, the federal government allowed you, on your census form, to be white, black, mulatto, quadroon or octoroon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, I'm going to start positively identifying as octoroon. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2008)

I found myself staring at him-could he be the child of a Sioux and an octoroon? ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

She was described as a "mulatto" but she was, more precisely, an "octoroon." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Claim refugee status as a minority octoroon, I think it was? ❋ Unknown (2006)

 By the late 1800s new racial categories were introduced: In 1890 the categories were black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians for those who do not know: octoroon is 1/8 Black, Quadroon is ¼ Black. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"[All the way up] until 1986, my barracoon played home to a [coffle] of twelve: 3 quadroons, 3 octoroons, 2 pickanninies, 2 Mexicans, a [mulatto], a chink, and a roan-colored Albanian hobo named Noodles. And I'll be goddammned if those weren't the best days of my life." ❋ Ronald T. McMurtry (2006)

[Damn yo] skin be mad light? How you [blaque]? I'm an [octoroon]. ❋ Bobby Gibson (2003)

"No one knew she was an Octoroon, Her Grandfather was half African". Joan [Bennett], [Constance] Bennett, [Fredi] Washington. ❋ P.Vought (2007)

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