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Definition of Cacique

1. Noun. Black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics.

Definition of Cacique

1. n. See Cazique.

Definition of Cacique

1. Noun. Originally a tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies. ¹

2. Noun. A local political leader in Latin America. ¹

3. Noun. Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cacique

1. a tropical oriole [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacique

Literary usage of Cacique

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"With these and similar arguments, the women and attendants of the cacique prevented his sallying forth to battle. He continued, however, in great wrath, ..."

2. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1871)
"—VASCO NUNEZ RECEIVES TIM DAUGHTER OF A cacique AS HOSTAGE. VASCO NUNEZ now exerted himself to prove his capacity for the government to which he had aspired ..."

3. The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de Soto by Theodore Irving (1851)
"The cacique, who was about fifty years of age, obtained permission of the governor ... The true object of the cacique, however, was to avail himself of the ..."

4. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"In token of his gratitude, the Indian cacique delivered to the general eight ... They were daughters of the principal chiefs, and the cacique requested that ..."

5. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"In token of his gratitude, the Indian cacique delivered to the general eight ... They were daughters of the principal chiefs, and the cacique requested that ..."

6. Works by Washington Irving (1892)
"... the most potent and warlike cacique of the mountains. This was the same chieftain of whom a formidable character had been given by the young Indiau ..."

7. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius Emil Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"They saw one man, whom the Admiral supposed to be Governor of that province, called by them cacique,1 with a piece of gold leaf as large as a hand, ..."

8. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"Each of the factions, or segments of the tribe, had a cacique of its own; and whilst this title was hereditary, the eldest son ..."

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