zambon.
/ˈzambəʊ/ 1. = sambo n.1 1.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person black and Amerindian
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1819 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. IV. 430 He was..of a dark brown complexion like a Zambo.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers (1853) xi. 72 In the sparse settlements of the country [sc. Mexico] you meet with a strange race—the cross of the negro with the ancient inhabitants of the country—the ‘zamboes’.
1896 W. E. Curtis Venezuela xii. 159 The zambos, the offspring of the imported negro and the native Indian stock.
2. A species of American monkey.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > unspecified type of
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1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers (1853) i. 11 The ferocious zambo fills the woods with its hideous half-human voice.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers (1853) i. 350 The ‘zambo’ monkey is one of the largest and fiercest of the family of quadrumana.
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