Tarascan
noun
a member of an Indigenous people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
Tarascans
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pluralof Tarascan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
