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octaroon / ˌɒktəˈruːn/

  1. a variant spelling of octoroon
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
oc•to•roon  (ok′tə ro̅o̅n′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Physical Anthropologya person having one-eighth black ancestry;
    the offspring of a quadroon and a white.
  • octo- + (quad)roon 1855–60, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
octoroon, octaroon / ˌɒktəˈruːn/
  1. a person who is one-eighth Black by descent
Etymology: 19th Century: octo- + -roon as in quadroon
'octaroon' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
octoroon

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