quadroon/kwɑːˈdɹuːn/EtymologyFrom Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.quadroon means of or related to quadroons. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.adjOf or related to quadroons.“Before them, with her face upraised, In timid attitude, Like one half curious, half amazed, A Quadroon maiden stood.”nounA person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.“There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the ‘Bhaer-garten’, though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school.”