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Mulatto vs Mulattress - What's the difference?

mulatto | mulattress |

As nouns the difference between mulatto and mulattress

is that mulatto is a person of mixed African and Caucasian descent while mulattress is a female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.

mulatto

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (often, pejorative) A person of mixed African and Caucasian descent.
  • (census) Anyone born to two half-African and half-Caucasian parents.
  • (census) Anyone who is three quarters African and one quarter Caucasian, or one quarter African and three quarters Caucasian.

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    mulattress

    English

    Noun

    (mulatresses)
  • A female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.
  • *1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 70:
  • *:I believe his final choice was determined less by personal preference than by compassion: it was a beautiful but modest-looking mulattress who stood in the background, protruding a pair of superb pear-shaped breasts, with her hands clasped behind her head and eyes raised soulfully to the ceiling.