Octoroon

=Octoroon= A person who is considered of 1/8 of black ancestry. Historically speaking, octoroons were typically an offspring of a quadroon, a person of 1/4 black ancestry and a person of full white ancestry.

The octoroon in Faulkner's //Absalom, Absalom//! is the unnamed wife of Charles Bon.

//All right, [Charles Bon] said, not 'goodbye'; maybe not even goodbye to the **octoroon**, to those tears and lamentations and maybe even the clinging, the soft despairing magnolia-colored arms above his knees...// - AA, 249