A mongrel or person of mixed blood; sometimes used as equivalent to “octoroon,” that is, the child of a white person and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person one of whose parents was a Spaniard and the other an American Indian.
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A mongrel or person of mixed blood; sometimes used as equivalent to “octoroon,” that is, the child of a white person and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person one of whose parents was a Spaniard and the other an American Indian.
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