Definitions for quadroon

quadroon quad·roon

Spelling: [kwo-droon]
IPA: /kwɒˈdrun/

Quadroon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in quadroon (adnooqru).

Definitions for quadroon

noun

  1. a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.

Origin of quadroon

1640-50; alteration of Spanish cuarterón, derivative of cuarto fourth Latin quartus; see -oon

Examples for quadroon

He turned his glance to the quadroon; she understood it; the patient was seriously ill.

My conversation was with the Creole, my thoughts dwelt upon the quadroon.

In the West Indies he would certainly have been set down as a quadroon.

The girl was a quadroon—that is, nearly, if not altogether, white.

I saw the quadroon approach this with silent tread, as if meditating some design.

The love of the quadroon was my source of pleasure; but, alas!

I was satisfied that the disappearance of the quadroon would be at once attributed to me.

He was probably regarded as a quadroon who had been accepted by the white race.

On one hand, the fear that their expression should not be understood and reciprocated by the quadroon.

The quadroon smiled, but the moment after her look of sadness returned.

Word Value for quadroon
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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