Even in the modern age, the width of a road is by no means standard. Today's roads vary from the wing-mirror brushing country lanes to vast 8- or 10-lane motorways, plus hard shoulders and central reservations.
muÂ·latÂ·to. n. pl. muÂ·latÂ·tos or muÂ·latÂ·toes Often Offensive. A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially one having one white and one black parent. [Spanish. , small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from. , mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin. .].
As such, the term mulata carries a certain sexual connotation in its description of the âmixed raceâ or at least, not âpureâ black woman: she is considered more attractive than the truly, indisputably black woman, but her status as a person of color, of African descent, marks her as socially inferior to the white woman.