octaroon
Britishnoun
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As did the brilliant frames of An Octaroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
From New York Times
Every foot of the way eastward brought up memories long dormant beneath the swarms of alien impressions received since going to sea, impressions that ranged from the songs of an octaroon in a blind-tiger back of Oglethorpe Avenue in Savannah, to the mellow Boom-cling-clang of temple-bells heard in the flawless dawn from a verandah above the sampan-cluttered canals of Osaka.
From Project Gutenberg
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