mulattress

English

Alternative forms

• mulatress

Etymology

From French mulâtresse, feminine of mulâtre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈlatɹɪs/

Noun

mulattress (plural mulattresses)

1. (dated, now offensive) A female mulatto, a mulatta; a woman with one black and one white parent.
   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 70:

     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.