quadroon
/kwɑːˈdɹuːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the ‘Bhaer-garten’, though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school."
- "1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63; Chapter VIII, p. 120 https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb Diana was a black quadroon, her father being a blackfellow. He was the father of four quadroons who were regarded as half-castes because the lighter part of their mother's blood was Asiatic, and he was only too well aware of what their future would be should he desert them."
- "Before them, with her face upraised, In timid attitude, Like one half curious, half amazed, A Quadroon maiden stood."
- ""What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue?" said a spruce quadroon chambermaid, dangling, as she spoke, a pair of coral ear-drops."
- "The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove, […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cuarterón, quartus