cacique / kəˈsik /
📖毕业后词汇爵士乐爵士爵士乐队爵士樂
cacique 的定义
n. 名词 noun- 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.
更多cacique例句
- 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.