Crossword-Solution: OCTOROON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Octoroon | n. | The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “OCTOROON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MUSTEE | 1 answer |
| One of racially mixed ancestry | 1 answer |
| person having one quadroon and one White parent | 1 answer |
| mestizo | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with OCTOROON (5)
His eyes fell slowly and inimically from the brow of Whittier to the braid of reddish hair belonging to Victorine Riordan, the little octoroon girl who sat directly in front of him.
There would have been no legal barrier to their union; there would have been no frightful menace to white supremacy in the marriage of the negro and the octoroon: the drop of dark blood bridged the chasm.
Half sitting, half leaning on the Captain's table, she preserved her courage sufficiently to seek to calm the octoroon waiting-woman who was grovelling at her feet in a state of terror.
Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes--boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,--and to call themselves Españolos, and to hold property, if they can get any.
But you know as well as I do that the laws of his State didn't recognize the marriage of a master with his octoroon slave! And you know as well as I do that even if he had freed you, he couldn't change your blood.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1993).