mulatton.adj.

Brit.

/mjuːˈlatəʊ/,

/mjᵿˈlatəʊ/, U.S.

/m(j)ʊˈlɑdoʊ/

Inflections: Plural mulattoes, mulattos.

Forms: 1500s mulatow, 1500s mulliato, 1600s mallatto, 1600s melotto, 1600s molata, 1600s molato, 1600s mollotto, 1600s molotto, 1600s mulata, 1600s mulato, 1600s muletto, 1600s 1700s malatta, 1600s 1700s mallatto (North American), 1600s 1700s mullato (North American), 1600s–1700s malato, 1600s–1700s molatto, 1600s–1700s moletto, 1600s–1700s mullatto, 1600s– mulatto, 1700s malotto, 1700s melatto, 1700s molater, 1700s moletta, 1700s mulleto (Scottish), 1700s (North American) 1800s (U.S.) malatto, 1700s–1800s mulattoe, 1900s– malata (Jamaican), 1900s– mulatta (Caribbean), 1900s– mulattoo (Jamaican).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish mulato; Portuguese mulato.

Etymology: Partly < Spanish mulato, noun ‘person of mixed race’ (1588) and adjective ‘of mixed race’ ( < mulo mule (see mule n.¹) + -ato : see below), and partly < Portuguese mulato, adjective and noun (a1515 with reference to a ‘person of mixed race’, 1526 in sense ‘young mule’, 18th cent. in sense ‘dark colour’; < mulo (see mule n.¹) + -ato : see below). Compare Middle French mullatre (1544), French mulâtre (1614; with assimilation of suffix to -âtre : compare -aster suffix), Italian mulatto (mid 16th cent.), and also German Mulatte (18th cent.; 16th cent. as Molate, 17th cent. as Mullato, Mulate).The suffix -ato of the Spanish and Portuguese forms is probably related to post-classical Latin -attus, suffix forming nouns denoting the young of animals.

A. n.

1. A person with one white and one black parent. Frequently more generally: a person of mixed white and black ancestry. Cf. metis n. 1, quadroon n.Now chiefly considered offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person

mulatto1591

mulat1678

mustee1699

quadroon1707

quintroon1769

terceroon1772

blue skin1788

metif1805

musteefinoa1818

Morisco1819

octoon1840

griff1850

octoroon1854

Conchy Joe1888

mustard seed1926

1591 J. Hortop Trauailes Eng. Man 26 When we came in the height of the Barmotha, we discouered a monster in the sea, who shewed himselfe, three times unto us from the middle upwards, in which parts he was proportioned like a man, of the complection of a Mulliato, or tawny Indian.

1595 in K. R. Andrews Last Voy. Drake & Hawkins (1972) 22 By meanes of a Mulatow and an Indian, we had, this night, forty bundles of dried beife.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xiv. 545 Why then are the Portugalls Children and Generations White, or Mulatos at most.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 10 A great fat man,..his face not so black as to be counted a Mollotto.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 199 The Mulata, because he said he was in the Fireship.., was immediately hang'd.

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 209 Grinning Malottos in true Ermin stare.

1728 E. Chambers 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.

1752 N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-Dealer (1930) 29 There are several malatos,..tradeing men that lives upon the low grounds.

1779 F. Burney Let. 25 Oct.–3 Nov. (1994) 408 We have also made acquaintance with Mrs. Chamier, & the little mulatto she has the care of.

1814 J. B. Scott Diary Sept. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) iii. 76 The women of Leghorn are singularly fair in general, much to our surprise, for their neighbours of Provence are almost mulattoes.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 31 Two woolly-headed poor little mulattos.

1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter xi That hag of a mulatto was no less a person than my wife.

1900 G. M. Gould & W. L. Pyle Anomalies & Curiosities Med. i. 49 A white woman, by intercourse with a white man and a negro, may conceive twins, one of which shall be white and the other a mulatto.

1936 J. Cary Afr. Witch i. 7 Two negroes in European dress, one a very tall mulatto, one darker and shorter.

1991 Américas 43 45 As a mulatto, he faced certain restrictions, but on the whole his childhood was unburdened.

†2. figurative. A hybrid. Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross

mongrel1558

hybrid1601

centaur1606

mulatto1664

half-strain1673

cross1761

cross-breed1774

first cross1793

double-cross1810

quadroon1811

intercross1859

outcross1882

reciprocal1901

filial generation1902

monohybrid1902

vicinist1905

first filial (or F₁) generation1909

polyhybrid1910

back-cross1919

second filial (or F₂) generation1938

1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery i. ii. 3 Purgatory (which is a device to make men to be Mulata's, as the Spaniard calls, half Christians).

†3. Geology. A green sandstone occurring in northern Ireland. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > greenstone > varieties of

mulatto1816

hornblende rock1821

diorite1826

hypersthene rock1838

hypersthenite1849

norite1853

aphanite1863

hyperite1863

1816 Trans. Geol. Soc. 3 130 Mulattoe, an arenaceous stone, with a calcareous cement of a speckled appearance (whence its name).

1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 110 The chalk..rests on..indurated greensand or (as it has been called) mulatto stone.

4. Chiefly in form mulato. = chile mulato n. Also mulato chilli.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > other spices

cubebc1300

madrian1357

anet seeda1398

poppy seeda1398

powder doucea1425

garquincea1483

spignelc1503

geland1714

mulatto1885

1885 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 57 552 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.

1952 M. 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.

1961 Los 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.].

1988 Frederick (Maryland) Post 25 Aug. e3/1 The mulato is generally larger and the brownish-black skin is tougher and less wrinkled.

2001 Sunday 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.

B. adj. Now chiefly considered offensive.

1. Brown; tawny.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > darkness > [adjective]

blackeOE

browned-black?c1510

dark?1537

black-faced1581

adust?1586

black-visaged1602

mulatto1622

kettle-faced1680

black-favoured1681

black-a-top1685

brown-complexioned1704

blackavised1721

brunette1724

brune1747

dark-skinned1750

black-looking1753

melanic1826

melanous1836

brunet1840

copper-skinned1873

brown-skinned1904

brown-

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 328 I sweare and vow vnto thee by this my Mulata face, that [etc.].

1751 Pennsylvania Gaz. 19 Feb. 2/3 (advt.) Run away last Sunday night, from Judah Hays, a Negroe wench, named Sarah, aged about 30 years; she is a likely wench, of a Mulatto complexion.

1826 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 2) I. 151 A man, who..was of a mulatto complexion.

1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy 84 Women of all shades of color, from deepest jet up to light mulatto.

1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man xiii. 208 He was fair-coloured, almost mulatto, and bragged repeatedly that his great-grandfather was an Englishman.

1986 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 52 129 She [sc. Gloria T. Hull] capitalized effectively upon her mulatto complexion, intelligence, and family connection to carve her niche in Afro-American journalism.

2. Descended from a white parent and a black parent; of mixed white and black ancestry.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black

mulatto1677

quadroon1748

dingy1785

yellow1796

high brown1911

1677 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 91 The upholding & detayning of this p[laintiff]'s molatto servant in Maryland.

a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 9 I shall observe your Caution, says my Moletto Comrade [sc. an Indian].

1768 S. Taine Deed of Sale 10 July in J. J. Abraham Lettsam (1933) iii. 61 I do hereby..release and Confirm unto him the said John Coakley Lettsam..a Molater Boy named Sam and a Molater girl named Teresa.

1804 ‘A. Mowbray’ Mother & Daughter II. iv. 156 Her heart sympathized most painfully in the anguish of the mulatto woman.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 156 She was asked whether she thought of doing anything for her two mulatto children.

1883 G. Allen in Mind 8 504 If..a mulatto child inherits..the quick perceptive faculties and intuitions of his mother [etc.]

1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man xiii. 542 A Mulatto woman [Fr. une mulâtresse], the offspring of a Spaniard and a negress, may give birth to a ‘Morisco’ by uniting with a Spaniard.

1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 62 Debauching the black slave women—producing a host of mulatto bastards.

1993 Amer. Lit. 65 513 Stowe found a way to represent the Mulatto hero to antebellum audiences without painting him in white-face.

Compounds

Chiefly U.S. regional.

† mulatto clay n. Obsolete a brown clay.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays

red clayc1475

urry1669

blae1724

cat-dirt1747

iron clay1750

till1762

mulatto clay1788

oak-tree clay1794

porcelain jasper1794

porcellanite1794

Karoo ground1836

plinthite1836

papa1851

Bradford clay1858

Indianaite1868

sinopite1868

hydrobiotite1881

pampas-clay1885

byon1892

potato clay1896

bentonite1898

quick clay1901

gumbotil1916

1788 T. Jefferson Tour through Holland & Rhine Valley Mar.–Apr. in Papers (1956) XIII. 19 It has a Southern aspect, the soil a barren mulatto clay, mixed with a good deal of stone, and some slate.

1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 309 On the prairies it [sc. the soil] is a vegetable mould of different depth..of rich mulatto loam or clay.

mulatto jack n. rare = yellow fever n. 1.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mulatto Mulatto Jack, a term for Yellow Fever.

mulatto land n. now historical land of mulatto soil; an area of such land.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil

black land1598

black soil1700

hen mould1712

mulatto land1741

mulatto soil1789

black cotton ground1804

mulatto loam1837

mulatto mould1838

black bottom1841

black turf1897

1741 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 287/2 A Tract of rich Mulattoe Land, lying in that County.

1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 556 The mulatto lands [of Georgia] are generally strong.

1883 E. A. Smith Rep. Geol. Surv. Alabama 1881–2 435 The red or mulatto lands are much the best for cotton.

1952 N. Callahan Smoky Mt. Country 76 The land which lay along the foot of the mountains was called ‘mulatto land’, being a dark soil with a clay foundation.

† mulatto loam n. Obsolete = mulatto soil n.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil

black land1598

black soil1700

hen mould1712

mulatto land1741

mulatto soil1789

black cotton ground1804

mulatto loam1837

mulatto mould1838

black bottom1841

black turf1897

1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 82 The surface is covered with a mulatto or chocolate colored loam.

1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 309 On the prairies it [sc. the soil] is a vegetable mould of different depth..of rich mulatto loam or clay.

† mulatto mould n. Obsolete rare = mulatto soil n.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil

black land1598

black soil1700

hen mould1712

mulatto land1741

mulatto soil1789

black cotton ground1804

mulatto loam1837

mulatto mould1838

black bottom1841

black turf1897

1838 Jeffersonian (Albany) 28 Apr. 88 The mulatto mould of the Colorado does not surpass in fatness the alluvial soil of Red River.

† mulatto prairie n. Obsolete a prairie of mulatto soil.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country > type of

fielding1609

bottom prairie1804

prairie bottom1805

prairillon1811

mulatto prairie1858

1858 Texas Almanac 1859 65 The mulatto or copper colored prairies are more kindly and easily cultivated.

1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 130/2 Then there is the ‘chocolate’ prairie, and the ‘mulatto’, and the ‘mezquite’.

mulatto soil n. now historical fertile brown or reddish brown soil; a soil of this type.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil

black land1598

black soil1700

hen mould1712

mulatto land1741

mulatto soil1789

black cotton ground1804

mulatto loam1837

mulatto mould1838

black bottom1841

black turf1897

1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 447 It changes into what is called the mulatto soil, consisting of a black mould and red earth.

1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 190 Next to this is very often found a skirt of rich pine land, dark mulatto soil with hickory..characteristic of good land.

1883 E. A. Smith Geol. Surv. Alabama 417 The mulatto soils of this formation are much the best.

1995 Sunday Tel. 16 Apr. 33 In 1974..Fawn Brodie wrote a ‘psychobiography’ in which she claimed Jefferson's description of ‘mulatto’ soil in Germany proved his obsession with Sally.

mulatto tree n. rare either of two tropical American trees with light brown wood or bark, Calycophyllum spruceanum (family Rubiaceae), and the gumbo-limbo, Bursera simaruba (family Burseraceae).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > other trees > [noun]

blood tree1785

sea-purslane tree1786

salt-tree1824

fever tree1830

sand wood1840

scrubwood1874

mulatto tree1876

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 97/1 Some Amazon trees taper downwards,..as the Mulatto tree (Eukylista Spruceana), one of the Cinchonaceæ.

1941 C. Swabey Principal Timbers Jamaica 13 Birch, West Indian (-Mastic, Red Birch, Turpentine tree, Incense tree, Mulatto tree)... Tree..with characteristic smooth papery chestnut-coloured bark.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mulatto
释义	mulatton.adj. Brit. /mjuːˈlatəʊ/, /mjᵿˈlatəʊ/, U.S. /m(j)ʊˈlɑdoʊ/ Inflections: Plural mulattoes, mulattos. Forms: 1500s mulatow, 1500s mulliato, 1600s mallatto, 1600s melotto, 1600s molata, 1600s molato, 1600s mollotto, 1600s molotto, 1600s mulata, 1600s mulato, 1600s muletto, 1600s 1700s malatta, 1600s 1700s mallatto (North American), 1600s 1700s mullato (North American), 1600s–1700s malato, 1600s–1700s molatto, 1600s–1700s moletto, 1600s–1700s mullatto, 1600s– mulatto, 1700s malotto, 1700s melatto, 1700s molater, 1700s moletta, 1700s mulleto (Scottish), 1700s (North American) 1800s (U.S.) malatto, 1700s–1800s mulattoe, 1900s– malata (Jamaican), 1900s– mulatta (Caribbean), 1900s– mulattoo (Jamaican). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish mulato; Portuguese mulato. Etymology: Partly < Spanish mulato, noun ‘person of mixed race’ (1588) and adjective ‘of mixed race’ ( < mulo mule (see mule n.¹) + -ato : see below), and partly < Portuguese mulato, adjective and noun (a1515 with reference to a ‘person of mixed race’, 1526 in sense ‘young mule’, 18th cent. in sense ‘dark colour’; < mulo (see mule n.¹) + -ato : see below). Compare Middle French mullatre (1544), French mulâtre (1614; with assimilation of suffix to -âtre : compare -aster suffix), Italian mulatto (mid 16th cent.), and also German Mulatte (18th cent.; 16th cent. as Molate, 17th cent. as Mullato, Mulate).The suffix -ato of the Spanish and Portuguese forms is probably related to post-classical Latin -attus, suffix forming nouns denoting the young of animals. A. n. 1. A person with one white and one black parent. Frequently more generally: a person of mixed white and black ancestry. Cf. metis n. 1, quadroon n.Now chiefly considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person mulatto1591 mulat1678 mustee1699 quadroon1707 quintroon1769 terceroon1772 blue skin1788 metif1805 musteefinoa1818 Morisco1819 octoon1840 griff1850 octoroon1854 Conchy Joe1888 mustard seed1926 1591 J. Hortop Trauailes Eng. Man 26 When we came in the height of the Barmotha, we discouered a monster in the sea, who shewed himselfe, three times unto us from the middle upwards, in which parts he was proportioned like a man, of the complection of a Mulliato, or tawny Indian. 1595 in K. R. Andrews Last Voy. Drake & Hawkins (1972) 22 By meanes of a Mulatow and an Indian, we had, this night, forty bundles of dried beife. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xiv. 545 Why then are the Portugalls Children and Generations White, or Mulatos at most. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 10 A great fat man,..his face not so black as to be counted a Mollotto. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 199 The Mulata, because he said he was in the Fireship.., was immediately hang'd. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 209 Grinning Malottos in true Ermin stare. 1728 E. Chambers 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. 1752 N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-Dealer (1930) 29 There are several malatos,..tradeing men that lives upon the low grounds. 1779 F. Burney Let. 25 Oct.–3 Nov. (1994) 408 We have also made acquaintance with Mrs. Chamier, & the little mulatto she has the care of. 1814 J. B. Scott Diary Sept. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) iii. 76 The women of Leghorn are singularly fair in general, much to our surprise, for their neighbours of Provence are almost mulattoes. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 31 Two woolly-headed poor little mulattos. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter xi That hag of a mulatto was no less a person than my wife. 1900 G. M. Gould & W. L. Pyle Anomalies & Curiosities Med. i. 49 A white woman, by intercourse with a white man and a negro, may conceive twins, one of which shall be white and the other a mulatto. 1936 J. Cary Afr. Witch i. 7 Two negroes in European dress, one a very tall mulatto, one darker and shorter. 1991 Américas 43 45 As a mulatto, he faced certain restrictions, but on the whole his childhood was unburdened. †2. figurative. A hybrid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross mongrel1558 hybrid1601 centaur1606 mulatto1664 half-strain1673 cross1761 cross-breed1774 first cross1793 double-cross1810 quadroon1811 intercross1859 outcross1882 reciprocal1901 filial generation1902 monohybrid1902 vicinist1905 first filial (or F₁) generation1909 polyhybrid1910 back-cross1919 second filial (or F₂) generation1938 1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery i. ii. 3 Purgatory (which is a device to make men to be Mulata's, as the Spaniard calls, half Christians). †3. Geology. A green sandstone occurring in northern Ireland. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > greenstone > varieties of mulatto1816 hornblende rock1821 diorite1826 hypersthene rock1838 hypersthenite1849 norite1853 aphanite1863 hyperite1863 1816 Trans. Geol. Soc. 3 130 Mulattoe, an arenaceous stone, with a calcareous cement of a speckled appearance (whence its name). 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 110 The chalk..rests on..indurated greensand or (as it has been called) mulatto stone. 4. Chiefly in form mulato. = chile mulato n. Also mulato chilli. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > other spices cubebc1300 madrian1357 anet seeda1398 poppy seeda1398 powder doucea1425 garquincea1483 spignelc1503 geland1714 mulatto1885 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 57 552 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. 1952 M. 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. 1961 Los 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.]. 1988 Frederick (Maryland) Post 25 Aug. e3/1 The mulato is generally larger and the brownish-black skin is tougher and less wrinkled. 2001 Sunday 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. B. adj. Now chiefly considered offensive. 1. Brown; tawny. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > darkness > [adjective] blackeOE browned-black?c1510 dark?1537 black-faced1581 adust?1586 black-visaged1602 mulatto1622 kettle-faced1680 black-favoured1681 black-a-top1685 brown-complexioned1704 blackavised1721 brunette1724 brune1747 dark-skinned1750 black-looking1753 melanic1826 melanous1836 brunet1840 copper-skinned1873 brown-skinned1904 brown- 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 328 I sweare and vow vnto thee by this my Mulata face, that [etc.]. 1751 Pennsylvania Gaz. 19 Feb. 2/3 (advt.) Run away last Sunday night, from Judah Hays, a Negroe wench, named Sarah, aged about 30 years; she is a likely wench, of a Mulatto complexion. 1826 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 2) I. 151 A man, who..was of a mulatto complexion. 1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy 84 Women of all shades of color, from deepest jet up to light mulatto. 1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man xiii. 208 He was fair-coloured, almost mulatto, and bragged repeatedly that his great-grandfather was an Englishman. 1986 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 52 129 She [sc. Gloria T. Hull] capitalized effectively upon her mulatto complexion, intelligence, and family connection to carve her niche in Afro-American journalism. 2. Descended from a white parent and a black parent; of mixed white and black ancestry. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black mulatto1677 quadroon1748 dingy1785 yellow1796 high brown1911 1677 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 91 The upholding & detayning of this p[laintiff]'s molatto servant in Maryland. a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 9 I shall observe your Caution, says my Moletto Comrade [sc. an Indian]. 1768 S. Taine Deed of Sale 10 July in J. J. Abraham Lettsam (1933) iii. 61 I do hereby..release and Confirm unto him the said John Coakley Lettsam..a Molater Boy named Sam and a Molater girl named Teresa. 1804 ‘A. Mowbray’ Mother & Daughter II. iv. 156 Her heart sympathized most painfully in the anguish of the mulatto woman. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 156 She was asked whether she thought of doing anything for her two mulatto children. 1883 G. Allen in Mind 8 504 If..a mulatto child inherits..the quick perceptive faculties and intuitions of his mother [etc.] 1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man xiii. 542 A Mulatto woman [Fr. une mulâtresse], the offspring of a Spaniard and a negress, may give birth to a ‘Morisco’ by uniting with a Spaniard. 1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 62 Debauching the black slave women—producing a host of mulatto bastards. 1993 Amer. Lit. 65 513 Stowe found a way to represent the Mulatto hero to antebellum audiences without painting him in white-face. Compounds Chiefly U.S. regional. † mulatto clay n. Obsolete a brown clay. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays red clayc1475 urry1669 blae1724 cat-dirt1747 iron clay1750 till1762 mulatto clay1788 oak-tree clay1794 porcelain jasper1794 porcellanite1794 Karoo ground1836 plinthite1836 papa1851 Bradford clay1858 Indianaite1868 sinopite1868 hydrobiotite1881 pampas-clay1885 byon1892 potato clay1896 bentonite1898 quick clay1901 gumbotil1916 1788 T. Jefferson Tour through Holland & Rhine Valley Mar.–Apr. in Papers (1956) XIII. 19 It has a Southern aspect, the soil a barren mulatto clay, mixed with a good deal of stone, and some slate. 1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 309 On the prairies it [sc. the soil] is a vegetable mould of different depth..of rich mulatto loam or clay. mulatto jack n. rare = yellow fever n. 1.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mulatto Mulatto Jack, a term for Yellow Fever. mulatto land n. now historical land of mulatto soil; an area of such land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1741 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 287/2 A Tract of rich Mulattoe Land, lying in that County. 1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 556 The mulatto lands [of Georgia] are generally strong. 1883 E. A. Smith Rep. Geol. Surv. Alabama 1881–2 435 The red or mulatto lands are much the best for cotton. 1952 N. Callahan Smoky Mt. Country 76 The land which lay along the foot of the mountains was called ‘mulatto land’, being a dark soil with a clay foundation. † mulatto loam n. Obsolete = mulatto soil n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 82 The surface is covered with a mulatto or chocolate colored loam. 1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 309 On the prairies it [sc. the soil] is a vegetable mould of different depth..of rich mulatto loam or clay. † mulatto mould n. Obsolete rare = mulatto soil n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1838 Jeffersonian (Albany) 28 Apr. 88 The mulatto mould of the Colorado does not surpass in fatness the alluvial soil of Red River. † mulatto prairie n. Obsolete a prairie of mulatto soil. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country > type of fielding1609 bottom prairie1804 prairie bottom1805 prairillon1811 mulatto prairie1858 1858 Texas Almanac 1859 65 The mulatto or copper colored prairies are more kindly and easily cultivated. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 130/2 Then there is the ‘chocolate’ prairie, and the ‘mulatto’, and the ‘mezquite’. mulatto soil n. now historical fertile brown or reddish brown soil; a soil of this type. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 447 It changes into what is called the mulatto soil, consisting of a black mould and red earth. 1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 190 Next to this is very often found a skirt of rich pine land, dark mulatto soil with hickory..characteristic of good land. 1883 E. A. Smith Geol. Surv. Alabama 417 The mulatto soils of this formation are much the best. 1995 Sunday Tel. 16 Apr. 33 In 1974..Fawn Brodie wrote a ‘psychobiography’ in which she claimed Jefferson's description of ‘mulatto’ soil in Germany proved his obsession with Sally. mulatto tree n. rare either of two tropical American trees with light brown wood or bark, Calycophyllum spruceanum (family Rubiaceae), and the gumbo-limbo, Bursera simaruba (family Burseraceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > other trees > [noun] blood tree1785 sea-purslane tree1786 salt-tree1824 fever tree1830 sand wood1840 scrubwood1874 mulatto tree1876 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 97/1 Some Amazon trees taper downwards,..as the Mulatto tree (Eukylista Spruceana), one of the Cinchonaceæ. 1941 C. Swabey Principal Timbers Jamaica 13 Birch, West Indian (-Mastic, Red Birch, Turpentine tree, Incense tree, Mulatto tree)... Tree..with characteristic smooth papery chestnut-coloured bark. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1591
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