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Mulatto

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mulatto
1. a person having one Black and one White parent
2. of a light brown colour
Mulatto 

the offspring of a mixed marriage between a Negro and a member of the Caucasoid race. Mulattoes constitute a significant part of the population of many Latin American and some African countries, notably the Republic of South Africa.
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The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
This was the master of a sailors' boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner food and shelter till he found him a berth.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
They sang one Negro melody after another, while the mulatto sat rocking himself, his head thrown back, his yellow face lifted, his shrivelled eyelids never fluttering.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
 
 
 
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