Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female mulatto.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female mulatto.

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  • noun dated A female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.

Etymologies

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From French mulâtresse, feminine of mulâtre.

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Examples

  • (The luck of the mulattress is the resting-place of the Good -

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • That old soldier, without any prejudices, had, by a mulattress, a son whom he recognized and to whom he left -- I do not know how many dollars.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • The metamorphosis which pleased me the least was that which she contracted after a voyage to Bourbon, from which she returned a mulattress, but without ceasing still to be remarkably handsome.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • Having made the mother of his child a pretty and sweet-tempered mulattress whom he met on

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • But it was lonely with only a half-deaf woman for a companion, and one day White Eagle brought to the four-room cottage he had erected a handsome well-educated mulattress who had escaped from slavery via the underground railroad.

    Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • In the end White Eagle crossed the Canadian shore and married the handsome mulattress according to English law and with the sanction of the Church; the mite of black humanity he adopted and called "Judah."

    Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • That his uncle and she had once been young he knew, and that their relations had once been closer than those of master and servant; but this outbreak of feeling from the wrinkled old mulattress seemed as strange and weird to Ben as though a stone image had waked to speech.

    The Colonel's Dream 1895

  • The only women in the household were an old black cook, and the housekeeper, known as "Viney" -- a Negro corruption of Lavinia -- a tall, comely young light mulattress, with a dash of Cherokee blood, which gave her straighter, blacker and more glossy hair than most women of mixed race have, and perhaps a somewhat different temperamental endowment.

    The Colonel's Dream 1895

  • Having made the mother of his child a pretty and sweet-tempered mulattress whom he met on a short trip to New Orleans, and whom he brought back to Arcola, he became deeply attached to the charming creature and to his son, so much the more so as, with a simple difference of complexion and of hair, the child was the image of him.

    Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

  • That old soldier, without any prejudices, had, by a mulattress, a son whom he recognized and to whom he left -- I do not know how many dollars.

    Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

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