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- noun Plural form of
Zambo .
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Examples
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The Zambos are the most miserable class of half-casts.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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The sugar-planters of the hot country of the interior, finding it impossible to carry on their estates by the use of negro slaves, attempted to reduce the mortality among their working people by raising up a race of those disgusting-looking beings called Zambos, a cross of negroes and Indians; but it was attended with the usual ill success that has followed every attempt to cross or intermingle different and distinct races of men, animals, or even plants.
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A line of Indians, Negroes, and Zambos, naked, emaciated, scarred with whips and fetters, and chained together by their left wrists, toiled upwards, panting and perspiring under the burden of
Westward Ho! 2007
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A line of Indians, Negroes, and Zambos, naked, emaciated, scarred with whips and fetters, and chained together by their left wrists, toiled upwards, panting and perspiring under the burden of a basket held up by
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The Zambos are not like these gentle Florentines; they don't care for anything that is not foul or brutal.
The Gadfly 1912
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They're a mangy, half-caste lot; negroes and Zambos mostly.
The Gadfly 1912
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I was not quite deformed enough; but they set that right with an artificial hump and made the most of this foot and arm ---- And the Zambos are not critical; they're easily satisfied if only they can get hold of some live thing to torture -- the fool's dress makes a good deal of difference, too.
The Gadfly 1912
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Four-fifths of the criminals in the city jail of Lima are Zambos.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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The most common are Mamelucos (offspring of white with Indian), Mulattoes (from white and Negro), Cafuzos or Zambos (from Indian and Negro), Curibocos
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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We met with Zambos carrying on their shoulders the cylinders of palmetto, improperly called the cabbage palm, three feet long and five to six feet thick.
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