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molatto

molatto is the archaic form of mulatto.

Meaning of mulatto

Noun

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

  1. (derogatory, historical, sometimes) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
    • Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]1949, Edward Nicholas, The hours and the ages: a sequence of Americans, page 77
    Synonyms:
    mestizo, metis

Forms of molatto

pluralmolattos
pluralmolattoes

Questions about molatto

What is molatto the archaic form of?
Molatto is the archaic form of mulatto.

Words near molatto in the dictionary

  1. molassied
  2. molassine
  3. molassisis
  4. molassos
  5. molassy
  6. molatto
  7. molattoes
  8. molattos
  9. molave
  10. molavee
  11. molavees

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