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buffalo soldiers

buffalo soldiers is the plural of buffalo soldier.

Meaning of buffalo soldier

Noun

buffalo soldier (plural buffalo soldiers)

  1. (US, 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.

Questions about buffalo soldiers

What is buffalo soldiers the plural of?
Buffalo soldiers is the plural of buffalo soldier.

Words near buffalo soldiers in the dictionary

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