| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mulatto |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mu·lat·to |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m -l t  , -lät, my- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. mu·lat·tos or mu·lat·toes
1. A person having one white and one Black parent. See Usage Note at octoroon. 2. A person of mixed white and Black ancestry. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish mulato, small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from mulo, mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin m lus.
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