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Quadroon

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A person with onefourth of black blood; the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man. The mulatto is half-blooded, one parent being white and the other black. (Latin, quatuor, four.) (See Lamb.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Quack or Quack Doctor;
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Quad
Quadra
Quadragesima Sunday
Quadragesimals
Quadrilateral
Quadrille
Quadriloge
Quadrivium
Quadroon
Quadruple Alliance of 1674
Quæstio Vexata
Quail
Quaint
Quaker
Qualm
Quandary
Quanquam or Cancan
Quarantine
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