单词 | mulattress |
释义 | mulattressn. A woman with one black and one white parent; = mulatta n.Now chiefly considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person > woman mulatta1622 mulattress1805 1805 in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 234 The chief of the audience is formed of mulatresses and negresses. 1845 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 344 Our party consisted of two Catholic priests and two Mulattresses. 1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 609/1 A handsome, strong-limbed, and light-footed mulattress. 1932 Dict. Amer. Biogr. VIII. 485/1 He lived openly with a mulattress and was only prevented from marrying her by the law against miscegenation. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 155/2 Baudelaire's illiterate mulatress Jeanne Duval. 1992 G. Adair Post-modernist always rings Twice 157 The love of a cotton planter for a beautiful mulatress in the antebellum South. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。