Tarascan
Americannoun
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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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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
Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan.
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
A full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army.
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.
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 Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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 Starr, Frederick
The first Tarascan name is given in the spelling used by Tarascans followed by the phonetic equivalent in English in parentheses.
From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.
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 Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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 Starr, Frederick
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