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.
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Mulattress — Mu*lat tress, n. A female mulatto. G. W. Gable. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mulattress — mu·lat·tress … English syllables
mulattress — ̷ ̷ˈla.trə̇s noun ( es) Etymology: French mulătresse, from mulătre mulatto (modification of Spanish mulato) + esse ess : a female mulatto … Useful english dictionary
mulatto — (n.) 1590s, offspring of a European and a black African, from Sp. or Port. mulato of mixed breed, lit. young mule, from mulo mule, from L. mulus (fem. mula) mule (see MULE (Cf. mule) (1)); possibly in reference to hybrid origin of mules. As an… … Etymology dictionary
mulatta — məˈlad.ə, myəˈ , myüˈ , atə noun ( s) Etymology: Spanish mulata, feminine of mulato : mulattress … Useful english dictionary
