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1. (n.) Mameluke
a member of an Egyptian military class, originally slaves, in power from about 1250 to 1517 and influential until 1811.
2. Mameluke
(l.c.) (in Muslim countries) a slave.
Etymology: (1505–15; < Ar mamlūk lit., slave, der. of malaka to possess)
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1. (noun) mameluke
one of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811
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