rare. 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, Analyt. 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, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., II. vii. 374. The first are called mulattoes,… the fourth, quintroons.
