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
Other Word Forms
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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Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wiry little Tarascan growing up in the mountains of Guerrero in Southwestern Mexico wanted nothing so much as to be a writer and historian.
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
All these belong to L�zaro C�rdenas who is of Tarascan descent.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was late when we reached the town, which consists in large part of mestizos and indians who speak little but native Tarascan.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
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