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To: GeronL

Octroon.

7 posted on 05/08/2010 7:01:20 PM PDT by Paladin2

To: Paladin2

octoroon

noun historical

a person whose parents are a quadroon and a white person and who is therefore one-eighth black by descent.

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from octo- [eight,] on the pattern of quadroon.

10 posted on 05/08/2010 7:15:59 PM PDT by deks (So will Obama sign a bill that requires native Hawaiians to show a birth certificate?)

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