MULATTO (mulattoes)

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Irregular inflected form: mulattoes   

• MULATTO (noun)
  The noun MULATTO has 1 sense:

1. an offspring of a black and a white parent

  Familiarity information: MULATTO used as a noun is very rare.

• MULATTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offspring of a black and a white parent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mulatto" is a kind of...):

mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

But the mulatto’s heart was with it, and he was driven back to it next day, when, on reconnoitering through the window, he found policeman Walters in possession.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The object of the mulatto cook’s return?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then why did you arrest the mulatto?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was certain from the first, however, that they would eventually be detected, as the cook, from the evidence of one or two tradespeople who have caught a glimpse of him through the window, was a man of most remarkable appearance—being a huge and hideous mulatto, with yellowish features of a pronounced negroid type.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)