noun Download 🔗Share Someone having one-eighth black ancestry. Examples : "Historical records sometimes identified individuals as "octoroons" if they were known to have one great-grandparent of African descent. " race person family history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man. Examples : "Because her great-great-great-grandmother was Black, some historians might have classified her as one of the last octoroons in the region. " race family person history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading