New Mexican, a. and n.
[f. New Mexico, one of the United States.]
a. adj. Of or belonging to New Mexico. b. n. A native or inhabitant of New Mexico.
| 1834 A. Pike Sketches 137 To an American, the first sight of these New Mexican villages is novel and singular. Ibid. 170 Even the New Mexicans call him a great rascal. 1893 C. F. Lummis Land of Poco Tiempo 294 Twenty miles south of the New Mexican hamlet of Manzano..is..the pueblo of Abó. 1940 E. Fergusson Our Southwest 228 Few families are so completely urbanized as not to have a little ranch somewhere, and New Mexicans care for their own as long as they can. |