n. the offspring of a white person and a person half Indian.
- 1862  The name is given equally to those who may have a White father and Half breed mother, or vice versa, and who are, thus, quarter-breeds--if we accept the reason of the name.
- 1903  (1913)  Thoughts of this wild, quarter-breed girl filled his brain as he sat in his little office. . . .
- 1935  Inside the schoolhouse a French Quarter-Breed was calling the dances. . . .