Usually means: Black soldiers, post-Civil War.
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  1. buffalo soldier: Merriam-Webster
  2. buffalo soldier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buffalo soldier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. buffalo soldier: Wiktionary
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  7. buffalo soldier: Dictionary.com
  8. Buffalo Soldier (disambiguation), Buffalo Soldier (film), Buffalo Soldier (song), Buffalo Soldier, Buffalo soldier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. BUFFALO SOLDIER, BUFFALO SOLDIER, BUFFALO SOLDIER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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  1. Buffalo Soldier (offensive): Racial Slur Database

Definitions from Wiktionary (buffalo soldier)

noun:  (US, military, 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.

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