Tarascann.adj.

1874 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States I. vi. 643 The Michoacagues or Tarascos are warlike and brave.

1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. x. 744 The Tarasco, the principal language of Michoacan, can be placed almost upon an equality with the Aztec, as being copious and well-finished.]

1911 C. Thomas & J. R. Swanton Indian Langs. Mexico & Central Amer. (U.S. Bureau of Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 44) 51 The Tarascan language is now well known as constituting a separate family.

1914 R. J. MacHugh Mod. Mexico i. 2 One hundred and thirty-three separate Indian tribes recognized in Mexico..are arranged under sixteen language groups—the Athapascan..Piman, Tañoan, Tarascan, [etc.].

1931 S. Chase Mexico ii. 31 There was only one basic culture in Mexico and Central America, in which the Mayas, the Toltecs, the Aztecs, the Tarascans, the Zapotecs and various other nations shared.

1948 R. C. West (title) Cultural geography of the modern Tarascan area.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating v. 94 Tarascan, a language of Mexico which has a number of metaphors, does not readily admit new ones.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XII. 164/2 The relative isolation created by the mountains permitted the Tarascans to work out their own cultural variant.