Words similar to quadroons

Example sentences for: quadroons

How can you use “quadroons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

One need only recall the baroque lexicon of "quadroons" and "octoroons" to know the absurd uses to which our powers of taxonomy can be put.
I'm not giving it another moment's thought on account of I'm too busy writing my novels, and if somebody wants to read one of them instead of sipping a whisky highball and kicking back in an Adirondack chair or an eight-dollar swivel chair or a pig iron porch swing covered in fifty-cent Montgomery Ward paint from a paintcan he keeps on a ledge in the fallingdown barn where his people have been begetting quadroons and octaroons and sixteentharoons and thirtysecondaroons since the time before they thought to write it down, that's nobody's business but his own.