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Comanche |
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Comanche [kəˈmæntʃɪ] n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -ches, -che a member of a North American Indian people, formerly ranging from the River Platte to the Mexican border, now living in Oklahoma 2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Still, I was sane enough to notice this detail, to wit: many of the terms used in the most matter-of- fact way by this great assemblage of the first ladies and gentlemen in the land would have made a Comanche blush. He was the most energetic man I ever saw, think quick as a wink, as cool as an icicle an' as wild as a Comanche. The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions. |
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