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mulatto

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mu·lat·to  (m-lt, -lät, my-)
n. pl. mu·lat·tos or mu·lat·toes
1. A person having one white and one Black parent. See Usage Note at octoroon.
2. A person of mixed white and Black ancestry.

[Spanish mulato, small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from mulo, mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin mlus.]

mulatto [mew-lat-toe]
Noun
pl -tos or -toes a person with one Black and one White parent [Spanish mulato young mule]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mulattomulatto - an offspring of a black and a white parent
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
mixed-blood - a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races
Translations

mulatto [mulattoes] [mjuːˈlætəu] nmulato/a
mulatto [mulattoes , pl ] [mjuːˈlætəu] nmulâtre/esse
mulatto [mjuːˈlætəu] [mulattoes , pl ] nMulatte m, Mulattin f
mulatto [pl mulattoes] [mjuːˈlætəu] nmulatto/a


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The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women.
This was the master of a sailors' boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner food and shelter till he found him a berth.
They sang one Negro melody after another, while the mulatto sat rocking himself, his head thrown back, his yellow face lifted, his shrivelled eyelids never fluttering.
 
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