mameluke

  1. Noun.  A member of a military regime created and run originally by freed white slaves, which formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria until 1516.
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) A slave (especially white) in a Muslim country.

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