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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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
Ironically, the would-be adoptive father of Baby K. is one-quarter Indian, of the Tarascan tribe of Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
L�zaro C�rdenas, a Tarascan Indian, finally made good some of the revolution's promises of land for the landless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Tarascan village in the Cordillera Volcánica, located 35 kilometers by road north of Uruapan; pine forest.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.
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