Tarascan
Americannoun
plural
Tarascans,plural
Tarascan-
a member of an Indigenous people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
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the language of the Tarascans.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Tarascan
First recorded in 1910–15; from Spanish Tarasco, from Tarascan tarascue “father-in-law; son-in-law” + -an ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan.
From Time Magazine Archive
M�rida maintains that many of the wiggly goblins and squat blobs which appear in paintings like Time Has Stratified Eternity are derived from ancient Mayan and Tarascan art forms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carrillo Flores, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian whose father was the 19th child of illiterate parents, made $100,000 a year as a lawyer-and economist, took something like a $75,000 cut to come to Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name cuiniqui in use by the Spanish speaking population is merely a corruption of the Tarascan name.
From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.
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