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mulatto, n. and a.|mjuːˈlætəʊ|
Forms: 6 mulatow, 7 malato, mallatto, melotto, molata, -o, mol(l)otto, mulata, -o, muletto, mullato, 7–8 molatto, -etto, mullatto, 8 malotto, melatto, moletta, 9 mulattoe, 7– mulatto.
[a. Sp. (and Pg.) mulato young mule, hence one of mixed race, a mulatto, obscurely derived from mulo mule n.1; hence F. mulâtre (with assimilation of suffix to -âtre = -aster), It. mulatto.]
A. n.
1. One who is the offspring of a European and a Black; also used loosely for anyone of mixed race resembling a mulatto.
1595Drake's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 22 By meanes of a Mulatow and an Indian, we had, this night, forty bundles of dried beife. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xiv. 545 Why then are the Portugalls Children and Generations White, or Mulatos at most. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 10 A great fat man,..his face not so black as to be counted a Mollotto. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) 199 The Mulata, because he said he was in the Fireship..was immediately hanged. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 209 Grinning Malottos in true Ermin stare. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Mulatto, a name given, in the Indies, to those who are begotten by a negro man on an Indian woman; or an Indian man on a negro woman. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 31 Two wooly-headed poor little mulattos. 1885R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter xi, That hag of a mulatto was no less a person than my wife.
†2. (See quot.) Obs.
1664Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery i. i. §3 Purgatory, which is a device to make men be Mulata's as the Spaniard calls half-Christians.
3. Geol. The greenstone of Northern Ireland.
1816Conybeare in Trans. Geol. Soc. III. 130 Mulattoe, an arenaceous stone, with a calcareous cement of a speckled appearance (whence its name). 1843Portlock Geol. 110 The chalk..rests on..indurated greensand or (as it has been called) mulatto stone.
4. attrib. and Comb., as mulatto-like adj.; mulatto-clay U.S., a dark-coloured clay; mulatto jack, a term for yellow fever (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1891); mulatto land, -soil U.S., a dark coloured fertile kind of soil; mulatto loam, mould = mulatto land; mulatto prairie, a prairie of mulatto-soil; mulatto tree (see quot.).
1788T. Jefferson Tour of Amsterdam in Writings (1854) IX. 386 It has a southern aspect, the soil a barren *mulatto clay, mixed with a good deal of stone, and some slate.
1741in Amer. Speech (1940) XV. 287/2 A Tract of rich *Mulattoe Land, lying in that County. 1794Morse Amer. Geog. 556 The mulatto lands [of Georgia] are generally strong. 1883E. A. Smith Rep. Geol. Survey Alabama 1881–82 435 The red or mulatto lands are much the best for cotton.
1719De Foe Crusoe i. 177 As for my Face, the Colour of it was really not so *Moletta like, as one might expect.
1837J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 82 The surface is covered with a *mulatto or chocolate colored loam.
1838Jeffersonian (Albany) 28 Apr. 88 (Th.), The *mulatto mould of the Colorado does not surpass in fatness the alluvial soil of Red River.
1869Overland Monthly III. 130 Then there is the ‘chocolate’ prairie, and the ‘*mulatto’, and the ‘mezquite’.
1794Morse Amer. Geog. 556 The *mulatto soil [of Georgia], consisting of a black mould and red earth. 1819E. Dana Geogr. Sk. Western Country 190 Next to this is very often found a skirt of rich pine land, dark mulatto soil with hickory..characteristic of good land. 1861Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. IV. 112 He..would not choose the dark prairie mold, but that kind of soil best known in the west as the ‘mulatto soil’.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 97/1 The *Mulatto tree (Eukylista Spruceana), one of the Cinchonaceæ.
B. adj.
1. Belonging to the class of mulattos.
1677Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 91 The upholding & detayning of this p[laintiff]'s molatto servant in Maryland. a1704T. Brown Walk round Lond., Tavern Wks. 1709 III. iii. 9, I shall observe your Caution, says my Moletto Comrade [an Indian]. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 156 She was asked whether she thought of doing anything for her two mulatto children. 1900Deniker Races of Man xiii. 542 A Mulatto woman, the offspring of a Spaniard and a negress, may give birth to a Morisco by uniting with a Spaniard.
2. Of the colour of a mulatto; tawny.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 328, I sweare and vow vnto thee by this my Mulata face, that [etc.]. 1826Prichard Res. Phys. Hist. Man. (ed. 2) I. 151 A man, who..was of a mulatto complexion. 1870W. M. Baker New Timothy 84 (Cent.) Women of all shades of color, from deepest jet up to light mulatto.
▸ Chiefly in form mulato. = chile mulato n. Also mulato chilli.
1885Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy Nov. 552 The different species of Capsicum, growing wild or cultivated in Mexico, and used medicinally or for condiment, are the following:..mulato, and in the unripe state poblano. 1952M. Rywell Mex. Cook Bk. 6 Chiles are the fruit of solanaceas [sic] plants and vary from region to region. Most commonly used are the Ancho, Chipotle, Cuararemo, Guero, Jalapeno, Mulato..and Serrano. 1961Los Angeles Times 16 July (Home section) 17/3 Mole de Guajalote. 1 10 to 12-lb. turkey, 10 ancho chilies, 4 pasilla chilies, 8 mulato chilies, [etc.]. 1988Frederick (Maryland) Post 25 Aug. e3/1 The mulato is generally larger and the brownish-black skin is tougher and less wrinkled. 2001Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 13 May Mole is a wonderful Mexican sauce which traditionally contains nuts, cocoa powder and three types of chilli... The mulato adds a smoky, nutty flavour. |