Noun: mulatto
| Singular | mulatto |
| Plural | mulattoes; mulattos |
Sample Sentences
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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 […] [1949, Edward Nicholas, The hours and the ages: a sequence of Americans, page 77:]
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The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly. [2004, Arthur Herzog, Jr, Icetopia, page 78:]
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The official mouthpiece of the Rosas government, La Gaceta Mercantil, praised Afro-Argentines as “valiant defenders of liberty who have won fame and glory in a hundred battles,” adding that “General Rosas so appreciates the mulattos and morenos that he has no objection to seating them at his table and eating with them.”
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In other respects, however, the persistence of racism against Afro-Argentines, Indians, and gauchos showed regrettable continuities with the colonial past. [2005, Jeffrey M. Shumway, The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870:]
Nouns inflected like mulatto
deuteroconch,
borshch,
bortsch,
hypervolcano,
mud volcano,
Milton mango,
bulk cargo,
FIZ,
DES,
DEX,
yellow-fever mosquito,
BMS,
BBS,
Kölsch,
CMS,
Negro,
nonzero,
cryptobranch,
active volcano,
winnebago, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. Doublet of mulato. See: Spanish Nouns '
mulato', Latin Nouns '
mūlus'.