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Gros Ventre

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Gros Ventre  (gr vänt)
n. pl. Gros Ventre or Gros Ventres (vänt)
1. See Atsina.
2. See Hidatsa.
[French, big belly : gros, big + ventre, belly (from an indigenous sign-language gesture designating this people that suggested a big belly).]
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Noun1.Gros VentreGros Ventre - a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota
Hidatsa
Siouan, Sioux - a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
2.Gros Ventre - a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa
Hidatsa
Siouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux


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Under the general name of Blackfeet are comprehended several tribes: such as the Surcies, the Peagans, the Blood Indians, and the Gros Ventres of the Prairies: who roam about the southern branches of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, together with some other tribes further north.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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