buffalo soldier

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noun buffalo soldier (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier. 1
noun buffalo soldier (US, military, historical) An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War. 0

before 1870

One of the 26% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1870-75; from the kinky hair, thought by the Indians to resemble that of a buffalo

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