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Mulatto

//mʊˈlɑtoʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents. derogatory, historical, sometimes

    "Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]"

  2. 2
    an offspring of a black and a white parent wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

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