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noun (berdache)
- (anthropology) Among North American Indians, a transvestite or transgendered person.
- 2005: Male have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups. " Michael J Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite (University of Texas 2006, p. 20)
Etymology: From French bardache, from Italian bardascia, perhaps from Arabic (ARchar, ) (bardaj) "slave". Compare bardash.
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