Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUAD-ROON', or QUA-TER-ON'
QUAD-ROON', or QUA-TER-ON', n. [L. quadra, quatuor.]
In Spanish America, the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man; a person quarter-blooded. – Clavigero.
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