quarteron
English
Noun
quarteron (plural quarterons)
- Obsolete form of quadroon.
- (obsolete) A quarter; especially, a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cuarterón.
Noun
quarteron m (plural quarterons, feminine quarteronne)
Etymology 2
Noun
quarteron m (plural quarterons)
- quarter of a pound
Anagrams
Further reading
- “quarteron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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