quin|troon

quin|troon
quin|troon «kwihn TROON», noun.
a person having one sixteenth Negro ancestry.
[alteration of Spanish quinterón < quinto fifth < Latin quīntus (because the person is fifth in descent from a Negro); after quadroon]

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