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单词 mulattress
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mulattressn.

Brit. /mjuːˈlatrᵻs/, /mjᵿˈlatrᵻs/, U.S. /m(j)ʊˈlɑtrəs/
Forms: 1800s– mulatress, 1800s– mulattress.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mulâtresse.
Etymology: < French mulâtresse (1681), feminine form corresponding to mulâtre (see mulatto n.); see -tress suffix. Compare earlier mulatta n.
A woman with one black and one white parent; = mulatta n.Now chiefly considered offensive.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person > woman
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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).
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