quinteroon

The elaborate shading of "the color line" in slavery days, from pure black up through mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, quinteroon, griffada, mustafee, mustee, and sang d'or -- to white again; was not through white mothers -- but white fathers; never too exclusive in their tastes.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897