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- noun Plural form of
mulattress .
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You might also observe, if you watch long enough, that among the blanchisseuses there are few sufficiently light of color to be classed as bright mulatresses; -- the majority are black or of that dark copper - red race which is perhaps superior to the black creole in strength and bulk; for it requires a skin insensible to sun as well as the toughest of constitutions to be a blanchisseuse.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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