octoroon
- n an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
- The other figure was a buxom octoroon woman in her 30's, wearing a high white turbanish mobcap, a bright embroidered shawl and a black silk dress.
- His great-grandfather, a Swiss engineer, married the daughter of Emperor Tewodros II; thus Ustinov is, literally, an octoroon.
- People in mourning and octoroon courtesans took their opera behind latticed screens.