quintroon rare.
(ˈkwɪntruːn)
Also quinteron, -oon.
[ad. Sp. quinteron, f. quinto fifth.]
One who is fifth in descent from a Negro (cf. quadroon 1 b), and has one-sixteenth of Negro blood.
| 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 796 note, The children of a white and quinteroon consider themselves as free from all taint of the negro race. 1835 D. Booth Anal. Dict. 324 ‘The child of a Quintroon by a white father is free by law.’ Such was recently the West-Indian slave-code. 1878 Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. ii. vii. 374 The first are called mulattoes,..the fourth, quintroons. |