What does the word quadroon mean?

Usage examples for quadroon

  1. Her mother- she is dead now- was a beautiful quadroon. – Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
  2. The kind of acquaintance he might have had with the quadroon was not likely to vary much from an acquaintance with some unknown neighbor's cat on which he mildly hoped to bestow a pitcher of water if ever he caught him under his window. – Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
  3. It would have passed all Creole powers of guessing to divine what you could find worthy of inquiry concerning a retired quadroon woman; and not the least puzzled of all would have been the timid and restive Madame Delphine herself. – Madame Delphine by George W. Cable
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