A fighting slave. A member of the military body, originally composed of Caucasian slaves, which seized the throne of Egypt in 1254, and continued to form the ruling class in that country until the early part of the 19th century (OED).
"The Egyptians lived under vassalage to their own Mamaluchi or Mercenaries."
Clement Walker, History of Independency (1648).
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