| Vividly told, with a beautiful octoroon as the central figure. |
| Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories, such as mulatto and octoroon. |
| He lights instead on an octoroon from Baltimore and a Frenchwoman brought up in the Calcutta Botanic Garden by a Bengali wet-nurse. |
| The octoroon struggled to escape, but the mate and Buck held him tight. |
| This girl is not the daughter of the octoroon woman, Suzanne. |
| Homer plessy was, in the now antiquated parlance of the times, an octoroon, being one-eighth black and seven-eighths white. |
