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. .].
The word is an adjective created from the name Barbados and by generalization, became synonym of all white slaves sent to America, including United States. The planters of Barbados used to breed the barbadosed Irish women with black male slaves to produce a more valuable bond servant: the mulatto.