Cimarron
English
Noun
Cimarron (plural Cimarrons)
- A Maroon (an African who escaped slavery in the Americas, or a descendant thereof), especially a member of the Cimarron people of Panama.
- 2013, David Franklyn, Belvedere, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:
- When he retired from piracy, Uncle Patrice settled down with a woman of mixed Taino and Cimarron ancestry to the less adventurous activity of tobacco ...
- 2013, Maha Marouan, Merinda Simmons, Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 122:
- We do know that the Spanish were forced to broker peace with the three main palenques of Cimarrons in Panama several years later.
- 2019, Tracey A. Sowerby, Joanna Craigwood, Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- Davenant's dramatic entertainment The History of Sir Francis Drake rewrites the episode of Drake's alliance with the Cimarrons in order to provide a ...
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Proper noun
Cimarron
- An unincorporated community in Kings County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Gray County, Kansas, United States.
- A village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.
- A river that flows from northeastern New Mexico, into the Arkansas River in northeastern Oklahoma.
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