• adj. 黃褐色的；白黑混血兒的
• n. [基醫(yī)] 白黑混血兒

來自西班牙語mulato,小騾子，混血兒，詞源同mule,騾子。

mulatto (n.)

1590s, "offspring of a European and a black African," from Spanish or Portuguese mulato "of mixed breed," literally "young mule," from mulo "mule," from Latin mulus (fem. mula) "mule" (see mule (n.1)); possibly in reference to hybrid origin of mules. As an adjective from 1670s. Fem. mulatta is attested from 1620s; mulattress from 1805.

American culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite. It is, regardless of all the hysterical protestations of those who would have it otherwise, incontestibly mulatto. Indeed, for all their traditional antagonisms and obvious differences, the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other. [Albert Murray, "The Omni-Americans: Black Experience & American Culture," 1970]

Old English had sunderboren "born of disparate parents."

1. The decent mulatto woman whom Eva had caressed so rapturously soon entered.

不多一會兒,剛才伊娃熱烈親吻的那個儀態(tài)端莊的黑女人進來了.

來自辭典例句

2. A mulatto, an albino , a mosquito, my libido , yeah.

一位黑白混血兒, 一位白化病患者, 一只蚊蟲, 我的生命力.

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