Tarascan
Americannoun
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Tarascans,
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Tarascan
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a member of an Indigenous people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
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the language of the Tarascans.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Tarascan
First recorded in 1910–15; from Spanish Tarasco, from Tarascan tarascue “father-in-law; son-in-law” + -an ( def. )
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Ironically, the would-be adoptive father of Baby K. is one-quarter Indian, of the Tarascan tribe of Mexico.
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
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also likely to enter the race is one-eyed General Joaquin Amaro, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian who still had rings in his ears when he first rode into Mexico City some 25 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
This district, in one respect, reminded us of the Tarascan country.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
Olid in Michoacán.—The same year, 1522, marks the extension of Spanish rule into Michoacán, the territory of the hitherto independent Tarascans.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
The drivers who were in charge of them were pure Tarascans.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The work is curious, and I am inclined to see in it a surviving imitation of the ancient feather-work for which the ancient Tarascans were famous.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The Tarascans and other tribes to the west had resisted its power, and shortly before the advent of the Spaniards the Tlascalans to the east had defeated the Aztecs in battle.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
Thence we went to Patzcuaro by rail, and studied the Tarascans in the villages about Lake Patzcuaro, visiting these by canoe-trips.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
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