Mulatto Definition

mo͝o-lătō, -lätō, myo͝o-
mulattoes, mulattos
noun
A person with mixed black and Caucasoid ancestry; specif., a person who has one black and one white parent.
Webster's New World

(census) Anyone born to two half-African and half-Caucasian parents.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of a mulatto.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mulatto

Noun

Singular:
mulatto
Plural:
mulattoes, mulattos

Origin of Mulatto

  • From Spanish or Portuguese mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule"), from mulo (“mule"), from Latin mulus (“mule"). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules..

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish mulato small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto from mulo mule from Old Spanish from Latin mūlus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mulatto Sentence Examples

  • Each census gave the gender, age and a designation of black or mulatto.

  • Vincent Oge, one of the mulatto delegates in Paris, disgusted at the overthrow of the hopes of his race, returned to San Domingo, and on landing in October 1790 addressed a letter to the governor announcing his intention of taking up arms on behalf of the mulattoes if their wrongs were not redressed.

  • A red-black soil known as " mulatto " or tawny is perhaps the best fitted for general cultivation.

  • Gohanna's descendants come down through Golumpus (1802), Catton (1809), Mulatto (1823), Royal Oak (1823), and Slane (1833).

  • Tobacco is most generally cultivated on loose red soils, which are rich in clays and silicates; and sugar-cane preferably on the black and mulatto soils; but in general, contrary to prevalent suppositions, colour is no test of quality and not a very valuable guide in the setting of crops.

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