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Tejano

noun

Meaning

  1. Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
  2. A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.
  3. A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.

Etymology / origin

From Spanish tejano, originally a translation of Texan from English.

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