Mameluke (English, noun)
expansion: Mameluke (plural Mamelukes)
Senses:
glosses: A member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers, mainly from the Eurasian steppe or the Caucasus; in particular, those who formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria from 1260 until 1516.
tags: historical
glosses: One who supports someone or something blindly or slavishly; specifically, one who supports the Roman Catholic Church in this manner.
tags: broadly
derogatory
glosses: A slave (especially one who is a white European) in a Middle Eastern Muslim country.
tags: broadly
obsolete
Forms:
form: Mamelukes
tags: plural
form: Mamaluke
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form: mamaluke
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form: mameluk
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form: mameluke
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form: Mamluk
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form: mamluk
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form: mamluke
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form: mammaluke
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form: memlook
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