mulattress

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mulattress

  • /mjuːˈlatɹɪs/ UK

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From French mulâtresse, feminine of mulâtre.

noun mulattresses · mulatress

  1. dated, offensive A 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.

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@misc{mulattress_2026,
  title = {mulattress},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mulattress},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}