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Mazatec

[maz-uh-tek]
noun, plural Maz·a·tecs, (especially collectively) Maz·a·tec for 1.
  1. a member of an American Indian people of northern Oaxaca, in Mexico.
  2. the Oto-Manguean language of the Mazatec.
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Related formsMaz·a·tec·an, adjective
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Historical Examples

  • We passed and repassed picturesque groups of Mazatec indians with their burdens.

    In Indian Mexico (1908)

    Frederick Starr

  • The mode of wearing the hair among the Mazatec women is in two broad, flat braids hanging down the back.