A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
Origin
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish mulato ("of mixed breed, young mule"), from mulo, from Latin mūlus ("mule"). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.
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