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  • noun Plural form of quarteroon.

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Examples

  • "I do not believe," writes Manhattan, "In any mulattos, quarteroons, or eighteroons; give us a pure, unadulterated negro, and I will vote for him." ...

    Echoes of the Week 1864

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