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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of a rural community in the Lika and Dalmatian hinterlands. historical

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian morlacco, New Latin Morlachus, probably from Greek Μαυροβλάχοι (Mavrovláchoi, “Black Vlachs”), cf. Vlach.

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