English Dictionary

octoroon

名詞

攻撃的

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry. / (dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

日本語の意味

（古い用法・差別的表現）黒人の血を8分の1持つ人。 / （古い用法・差別的表現）黒人の血を64分の1持つ人、すなわち、5分の1（quintoon）と白人の間に生まれた子供。

In the 19th-century novel, a character identified as an octoroon struggled with the strict racial laws of the time.

その19世紀の小説では、黒人の祖先を8分の1持つとされた登場人物が当時の厳しい人種法に苦しんでいた。

意味（1）

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

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.

意味（2）

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman

octoroons （ plural ）