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octoroon: Meaning and Definition of

oc•to•roon

Pronunciation: (ok"tu-rn'), [key]
— n.
  1. a person having one-eighth black ancestry; the offspring of a quadroon and a white.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
octopus octosyllabic
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