quarter-breed

quarter-breed [kwawr-ter-breed] ExamplesWord Origin noun Disparaging and Offensive.

a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.

Origin of quarter-breed First recorded in 1820–30 Examples from the Web for quarter-breed Historical Examples of quarter-breed

The quarter-breed glanced about him and unconsciously lowered his voice.

James B. Hendryx

And now a week had passed and she had seen neither Vil Holland nor the quarter-breed.

James B. Hendryx

She had the rich tint of a quarter-breed, lightened in her case by a constant suffusion which gave her steady color.

Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The quarter-breed’s tone was one of glad surprise, as he dismounted and advanced, hat in hand.

James B. Hendryx

Thoughts of this wild, quarter-breed girl filled his brain as he sat solitary in his little office on the night of the pusky.

Ridgwell Cullum