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English
Noun
Mamaluke (plural Mamalukes)
- Alternative spelling of Mameluke.
1597, Feliciano Cieça de Corvalho, “A Speciall Letter Written from Feliciano Cieça de Carvalsho the Gouernour of Paraina in the Most Northerne Part of Brasil, 1597. to Philip the Second King of Spaine, Answering His Desire Touching the Conquest of Rio Grande, with the Relation of the Besieging of the Castle of Cabodelo by the Frenchmen, and of the Discouerie of a Rich Siluer Mine and Diuerse Other Important Matters”, in Richard Hakluyt, transl., The Third and Last Volume of the Voyages, Nauigations, Traffiques, and Discoueries of the English Nation, and Prosperous Voyages of Sir Francis Drake and M. Thomas Candish Round about the Circumference of the whole Earth, and Diuers Other Voyages Intended and Set Forth for that Course.">…], 2nd edition, London: George Bishop, Ralfe Newberie, and Robert Barker, published 1600, →OCLC, page 718:The King our maſter hath ſent a decree and certaine ſtatutes touching the good gouernment and orders to be executed and kept in thoſe Indian townes; and that vpon ſight hereof I ſhall preſently baniſh all the Mamalukes and white men which dwell in any of thoſe Indian townes with all ſpeede,