octoroon

suomi-englanti sanakirja

octoroon englannista suomeksi

1. kahdeksasosaneekeri

0. Substantiivi

octoroon englanniksi

1. Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1840|title=Two Years Before the Mast

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1900|title=House Behind the Cedars (book)|The House Behind the Cedars

4. {{quote-book|en|year=1914|title=The Wisdom of Father Brown

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1969|author=Maya Angelou|title=I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|url=https://archive.org/details/iknowwhycagedbi000maya|chapter=10|page=50|publisher=Bantam|year_published=1971|location=New York

6. (quote-video game)|publisher=Tales of Game's Studios|year=2008|quotee=Charles Barkley|text=That's Balthios, the octoroon great grandson of Lebron James. He doesn't like to talk about himself, but he's a good guy.

7. (quote-journal) Coleman|title=Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’|journal=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/08/not-quite-blak-enough-the-people-who-think-i-am-too-white-to-be-aboriginal-are-all-white-claire-g-coleman-lies-damned-lies|passage=It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. (..) Protectors took the mixed-race children, ‘half-castes’, ‘quarter-castes’, ‘octoroons’, from their parents, from their culture, raised the light-skinned ones white, at an orphanage, and trained the darker-skinned ones to be domestic servants for the colonisers.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203075838/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/08/not-quite-blak-enough-the-people-who-think-i-am-too-white-to-be-aboriginal-are-all-white-claire-g-coleman-lies-damned-lies

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9. Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=2005|author=Donald Harman Akenson|title=Irish History of Civilization|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=Bw2tJrl1B9QC&pg=PA353|page=353