Crossword-Solution: QUARTEROON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quarteroon | n. | A quadroon. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “QUARTEROON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| an old term for a person of one-quarter black ancestry | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with QUARTEROON (4)
Ormond--How he got his rights in Africa--I take a survey of his property and of my duties--The Cerberus of his harem--Unga-golah's stealing--Her rage at my opposition--A night visit at my quarters--ESTHER, the quarteroon--A warning and a sentimental scene--Account of an African factor's harem--Mongo John in his decline--His women--Their flirtations--Battles among the girls--How African beaus fight a duel _for love_!--Scene of passionate jealousy among the women 76 CHAP.
The manner of these _quarteroon_ girls, whose complexion hardly separates them from our own race, is most winningly graceful; and Esther, with abated breath, timidly asked my pardon for intruding, while she declared I had made so bitter an enemy of Unga-golah,--the head-woman of the seraglio,--that, in spite of danger, she stole to my quarters with a warning.
Indeed, ever since the night of warning, when the beautiful _quarteroon_ visited my hovel, I had contrived to meet this charming girl, as the only solace of my solitude.
Judge Workman's will contains the following clause in relation to her, viz:--"I request my statu liber, Kitty, a quarteroon girl, to be set free as soon as convenient.