14 Words to use with quadroons

He had gambled in Royal Street, drunk hard in Orleans Street, run his adversary through in the duelling-ground at Slaughter-house Point, and danced and quarrelled at the St. Philippe-street-theatre quadroon balls.

It would have passed all Creole powers of guessing to divine what you could find worthy of inquiry concerning a retired quadroon woman; and not the least puzzled of all would have been the timid and restive Madame Delphine herself.

"I think you brought a bill against the estate of the late Mr. Alfred Royal for lessons given to some quadroon girls.

He accordingly wrote a very studied letter to Madame, telling her that, with her knowledge of the world, he supposed she must be well aware that the daughter of a quadroon slave could not be legally recognized as the wife of a Southern gentleman; that he still loved Rosa better than any other woman, but wishing for legal heirs to his hereditary estate, it was necessary for him to marry.

"All my negroes except old Peter and a quadroon maid have gone crazy," said Celia hopelessly.

During the first quarter of the present century, the free quadroon caste of New Orleans was in its golden age.

He had heard of those quadroon connections, as one hears of foreign customs, without any realizing sense of their consequences.

To Zalli, of course, as to all "quadroon ladies," the festivities of the Conde-street ball-room were familiar of old.

Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.

Here the door opened, and a small quadroon boy, remarkably beautiful and engaging, entered with a comic air of assurance which showed he was used to being petted and noticed by his master.

Nor, from what I gleaned, are the ladies themselves immaculate, as may be inferred from the occasional quadroon aspect of their progeny.

The appearance and situation of hundreds of quadroon females in this city, soon attracted my attention, and deserve notice.

His visitor accordingly began by telling of Mr. Royal's having formed one of those quadroon alliances so common in New Orleans; of his having died insolvent; and of his two handsome octoroon daughters having been claimed as slaves by his creditors.

I even referred to our quadroon guide, and then it was she suddenly turned her face toward me.

14 Words to use with  quadroons