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octoroon

The correct spelling is octoroon.

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noun

Say it like: Oct-oroo-n

The correct spelling is octoroon. Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

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Definition

noun

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

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