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octoroon vs. mulatto
noun
Older Use: Offensive.
- a person having one-eighth Black ancestry, with one Black great-grandparent; the offspring of a quadroon and a white person.
noun
plural mulattoes, mulattos.
- Anthropology. (not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one Black parent.
- Older Use: Offensive. a person who has both Black and white ancestors.
adjective
- of a light-brown color.