单词 | mulatto-like |
释义 | mulatto-likeadj. Resembling a person with one white parent and one black parent, esp. in colour. Also: hybrid.Now likely to be considered offensive (see note at mulatto n.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 177 As for my Face, the Colour of it was really not so Moletta like, as one might expect. 1871 Galaxy Dec. 791 I've got dreadfully tired of always looking at these Turks and Ayrabs and Egyptians, and never being able to speak to anybody. And they are such a mulatto-like set, too. 1933 Speculum 8 168 The small Christ-child..is portrayed with..no element of the divine in its mulatto-like face. 1986 Callaloo 26 149 For every ‘race poem’, another exists that has nothing to do with black culture. The result is a mulatto-like text. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1719 |
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