| Until the stranger was close upon the octoroon, I had not seen him. |
| But once you get into octoroon territory, it holds far less mystique. |
| To make Iola Leroy acceptable to a white audience, the black heroine would have to be physically almost white, a mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon. |
| Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories, such as mulatto and octoroon. |
| Homer plessy was, in the now antiquated parlance of the times, an octoroon, being one-eighth black and seven-eighths white. |
| Bon's octoroon mistress leads a twilight existence of luxury, clouded and constrained by patriarchal domination and racist exclusion. |
