cacique

/kuh-seek/US // kəˈsik //UK // (kəˈsiːk) //

爵士乐,爵士,爵士乐队,爵士樂

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a chief of an Indian clan or tribe in Mexico and the West Indies.
- : a political boss on a local level.
- : a prominent landowner.
- : any of several black and red or black and yellow orioles of the American tropics that construct long, pendent nests.

It is from the perspective of a Mexican cacique on his deathbed.
Yet, though ostensibly free, these local bodies are practically in the power of the political wire-puller, or cacique.
The cacique has another very beautiful palace, with a large courtyard, paved with handsome flags, in the style of a chess-board.
In later years a cacique was elected annually by the people, and under him officers were appointed for the different villages.
At length they were again taken captive by the cacique or chief of another province.
Formerly 729 each town or province was ruled by an hereditary cacique, who administered justice with four nobles as counselors.