Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MU-LAT'TO
MU-LAT'TO, n. [Sp. mulato, that is, muled, of a mixed breed, from mulo, L. mulus, a mule; Fr. mulatre.]
A person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.
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