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- noun historical A
school for the children ofAztec nobility .
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Examples
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They exercised privileges such as juridical sovereignty, the right to send their children to the calmecac (school of the elite class), and the management of the major urban markets.
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When I was eight years old, my father sent me to the calmecac, the temple school, not to the ordinary warrior school.
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We students of the calmecac were marked for higher duties.
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They exercised privileges such as juridical sovereignty, the right to send their children to the calmecac (school of the elite class), and the management of the major urban markets.
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When I was eight years old, my father sent me to the calmecac, the temple school, not to the ordinary warrior school.
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We students of the calmecac were marked for higher duties.
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A special variety were the _calmecatlatolli_, the declamations which the youths of noble families were taught to deliver in the spacious halls of the _calmecac_, or public schools.
Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Smiling, Cuauhtemoc replied, “We’ll discuss that when you’ve finished calmecac.”
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » Night Bird Soaring by T. L. Morganfield 2009
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