mulatto
(noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)
(dated or historical, now, often, pejorative) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent.
Synonyms: mestizo, metis
mixed black and white
• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe) (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, mustiphini (1/16 black)
• quintroon (quintoon) (1/16 or 1/32 black)
• dustee (1/32 black)
mixed white and Native
• castizo (1/4 Native)
• mameluco (1/2 Native)
• mestizo (any mix, especially 1/2 Native)
Source: Wiktionary
Mu*lat"to, n.; pl. Mulattoes. Etym: [Sp. & Pg. mulato, masc., mulata, fem., of a mixed breed, fr. mulo mule, L. mulus. See Mule.]
Definition: The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
