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 Mulattoes in the West Indies extended the term beyond the first generation of half breeds by applying the term to their own offsprings. Consequently, as the term was extended from generation to generation, it applied to any person of mixed ancestry.