cimarron

plural cimarrons

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cimarron (“maroon”).

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plural Cimarrons · alternative cimarron

1. A Maroon (an African who escaped slavery in the Americas, or a descendant thereof), especially a member of the Cimarron people of Panama.

   We do know that the Spanish were forced to broker peace with the three main palenques of Cimarrons in Panama several years later.

   2013, Maha Marouan, Merinda Simmons, Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 122

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   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, David Franklyn, Belvedere, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 6

   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 ...

   2019, Tracey A. Sowerby, Joanna Craigwood, Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57

1. An unincorporated community in Kings County, California, United States.
2. An unincorporated community in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
3. A city, the county seat of Gray County, Kansas, United States.
4. A village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.
6. A river that flows from northeastern New Mexico, into the Arkansas River in northeastern Oklahoma.