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mulatto
  1. (pejorative) A person of mixed black and white descent.
  2. (census) Anyone born to two half-black and half-white parents.
  3. (census) Anyone who is three quarters black and one quarter white, or one quarter black and three quarters white.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Another mulatto trapper to achieve distinction among the Crows, at least in his own telling, was James P. Beckwourth.”
      “Strickland had downed the mulatto twice, and the mulatto, sober, was a man to be reckoned with.”
      “In challenging the myths of mulatto fiction by precursory white writers, in particular, Fauset reveals the fundamentally political nature of her novels.”
mulattress
  1. (offensive) A female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.
mulatress
  1. Alternative form of mulattress
mulatta
  1. A female mulatto.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Schomburg was born on 24 January 1874 to an unwed freeborn mulatta, Maria Josepha, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Puerto Rico by his mother's family.”
      “Wearing a black wig and dark make-up to make her look like a mulatta, she also appears in the Macumba performance.”
      “Magnetic resonance imaging of the placenta in rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta.”
mulattresses
  1. plural of mulattress
mulatresses
  1. plural of mulatress
mulattas
  1. plural of mulatta
mulattos
  1. plural of mulatto
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  3. Examples:
    1. “According to later Portuguese estimates, 100,000 Kongo, 190 musket-bearing mulattos, and 29 Portuguese answered his call.”
      “Though the rebellion failed, it marked the end of the tacit alliance between whites and mulattos against slaves, which had endured until then.”
      “In Brazil, the African Brazilian population comprises blacks and mulattos.”
mulattoes
  1. plural of mulatto
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He remembered his successful appeal to the mulattoes, five years before, to put down an insurrection.”
      “But to prevent intermarriage is only a small part of the solution, since most mulattoes come from extramarital miscegenation.”
      “The northern suburbs, in contrast, contain much larger proportions of mulattoes, as do many districts of the North Zone.”
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