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mulatress

mulatress is the alternative form of mulattress.

Meaning of mulattress

Noun

mulattress (plural mulattresses)

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

Forms of mulatress

pluralmulatresses

Questions about mulatress

What is mulatress the alternative form of?
Mulatress is the alternative form of mulattress.

Words near mulatress in the dictionary

  1. mulard
  2. mulards
  3. Mulas
  4. mulato
  5. mulatos
  6. mulatress
  7. mulatresses
  8. mulatta
  9. mulattas
  10. mulatto
  11. mulattoes

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