🔤 Quintroon ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
panchwan hissa, quintroon, panch hisson wala, panch hisson ka, panchwan darja, panch hisson ki nasal
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ENGLISH
📚noun
quintroon
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈkwɪntruːn/
Phonetic: /kwin troon/
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DEFINITION
the offspring of an octoroon and a white person, a person of one sixteenth African ancestry in dated racial classification
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
The term quintroon appeared in outdated racial classifications.
Quintroon described a person with one sixteenth African ancestry.
Such racial labels are now recognized as scientifically invalid.
Historians study how terms like quintroon shaped social hierarchies.
The census once used quintroon as a category in some regions.
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