mulatto

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules. Doublet of mulato.

1. 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 […]”

   “The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.”