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Comanche

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Co·man·che  (k-mnch)
n. pl. Comanche or Co·man·ches
1.
a. A Native American people formerly ranging over the southern Great Plains from western Kansas to northern Texas and now located in Oklahoma. The Comanche became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating south from Wyoming in the 18th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Comanche.

[Spanish, from Ute kmmani.]

Co·manche adj.

Comanche [kom-man-chee]
Noun
pl -ches or -che a member of a N American Indian people, formerly living in the plains to the east of the Rockies, now chiefly in Oklahoma
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Comanche - a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma
Shoshone, Shoshoni - a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
2.Comanche - the Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche
Shoshonean, Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language - a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States

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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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