mulatto
noun
(not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one Black parent.
mulattos
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pluralof mulatto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Next were the mulattos, persons of mixed European and African ancestry, and enslaved Africans.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Their ideas grow out of a traditional obsession with the legal status of free blacks and mulattos in the decades before the Civil War.
From Salon ● May 4, 2011
Ms. Hills also spoke of the dance’s African-Argentine roots among the local mulattos and immigrants, principally in Rio de la Plata, a Buenos Aires suburb.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2010
Population: Spanish whites 950,000, mulattos 300,000, blacks 50,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The total number of African negroes imported from 1521 to 1763 was probably 60,000; their descendants survive among the free mulattos, who inhabit for the most part the eastern side of the island.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
