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mu·lat·to

(mo͝o-lăt′ō, -lä′tō, myo͝o-)

n. pl. mu·lat·tos or mu·lat·toes Often Offensive

A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially one having one white and one black parent.

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

mulatto

(mjuːˈlætəʊ)

n, pl -tos or -toes

1. (Genetics) a person having one Black and one White parent

2. (Peoples) a person having one Black and one White parent

adj

(Colours) of a light brown colour

[C16: from Spanish mulato young mule, variant of mulo mule¹]

mu•lat•to

(məˈlæt oʊ, -ˈlɑ toʊ, myu-)

n., pl. -toes,
adj. n.

1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent.

2. a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian.

adj.

3. of a light brown color.

[1585–95; < Sp mulato young mule =mul(o) mule¹ + -ato of unclear orig.]

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Noun

mulatto - 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

[mjuːˈlætəʊ]

A. ADJ → mulato

B. N (mulattos or mulattoes (pl)) → mulato/a m/f

mulatto

[mjuːˈlætəʊ] [mulattoes] (pl) n → mulâtre/esse m/f

mulatto

adj → Mulatten-; features → eines Mulatten/einer Mulattin; mulatto child → Mulattenkind nt

n pl <-es> → Mulatte m, → Mulattin f

mulatto

[mjuːˈlætəʊ] n (mulattoes (pl)) (offensive) → mulatto/a

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He was a heavy, bulky mulatto, on short legs, and he came tapping the floor in front of him with his gold-headed cane.

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A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.

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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.

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White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.

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She is ever disposed to find fault with them; they can seldom do any thing to please her; she is never better pleased than when she sees them under the lash, especially when she suspects her husband of showing to his mulatto children favors which he withholds from his black slaves.

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I pore over these cheeses without any result or enlightenment until dinner-time, when, having made a Mulatto of myself by getting the dirt of the slate into the pores of my skin, I have a slice of bread to help me out with the cheeses, and am considered in disgrace for the rest of the evening.

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Higginbotham's corpse were not yet discovered by his own family, how came the mulatto, at above thirty miles' distance, to know that he was hanging in the orchard, especially as he had left Kimballton before the unfortunate man was hanged at all?

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A mulatto maid-servant in a bright turban, replying to the summons, informed her mistress that she had seen "Miss Ellen" going down the path to the shore; and Mrs.

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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.

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Yes--a mulatto, if you wish me to be particular; the daughter of an English father and a negro mother.

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She was a mulatto woman, and I noticed that her face was haggard, with great circles under the eyes, while the eyes themselves were wide with some haunting fear.

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Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter's granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St.