griffe

noun2

1. •
   (dialect, old-fashioned) A person of mixed (black and white) race, especially the offspring of a mulatto (person of mixed black and white ancestry) and a person of fully black ancestry.

   • Saint-Domingue's complex system of racial classification allowed for no fewer than eight “mixed” racial parental combinations that could produce a griffe, as infamously calculated by Moreau. — 2017
2. •
   A claw-like ornament at the base of a column.