terceroon rare.
(tɜːsəˈruːn)
Also 8–9 terceron, 9 tierceroon.
[a. Sp. *terceron, f. tercero a third person, f. tercio third: cf. cuarteron, quinteron.]
The offspring of a white person and a mulatto, being third in descent from a Negro; = quadroon 1 a: see note there. (Distinguished from quadroon 1 b.)
| 1760–72 tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 29 The Tercerones, produced from a White and a Mulatto, with some approximation to the former, but not so near as to obliterate their origin. 1819 W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. etc. 296 Europeans and Mulattos produce Tercerons (sometimes also called Quarterons, Moriscos, and Mestizos)... Europeans and Tercerons produce Quarterons or Quadroons. 1878 Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthropol. ii. vii. 374 The mixed breeds of negroes and Europeans have various names... The first are called mulatoes, the second, tierceroons. |