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Cacique   /kəsˈik/   Listen
Cacique

noun
1.
Black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics.  Synonym: cazique.






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"Cacique" Quotes from Famous Books



... he deserves it.[91] The ideas of property seem still limited to that of possessory right, with the ultimate title in the clan, except that portable articles subject to individual ownership have become more numerous. In government the council of sachems reappears with a principal sachem, or cacique, called by the Spaniards "gobernador." There is an organized priesthood, with distinct orders, and a ceremonial more elaborate than those of the ruder Indians. In every pueblo there is to be found at least one "estufa," or council-house, for governmental ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... like maize, savannah, cacique, maguey (agave) and manato, belong to the ancient language of Hayti, or St. Domingo. It did not properly denote the herb, but the tube through which the smoke was inhaled. It seems surprising that a vegetable production so universally spread should have different names among neighboring ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings



Words linked to "Cacique" :   oriole, New World oriole, genus Cacicus, Cacicus, American oriole



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