mulattress

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UK/mjuːˈlatɹɪs/

noun

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

OriginFrench mulâtresse →
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Meanings

nounmulattress (plural mulattresses)

plural mulattresses · alternative mulatress

  1. datedoffensiveA female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.

    I believe his final choice was determined less by personal preference than by compassion: it was a beautiful but modest-looking mulattress who stood in the background, protruding a pair of superb pear-shaped breasts, with her hands clasped behind her head and eyes raised soulfully to the ceiling.

    1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 70

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mulatta

Origin

  1. Frenchmulâtresse
  2. Englishmulattress

From French mulâtresse, feminine of mulâtre.

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APA

mulattress. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mulattress

MLA

“mulattress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mulattress. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mulattress,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mulattress.

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