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Lipan
[ li-pahn ]
noun
, plural Li·pans, (especially collectively) Li·pan
- a member of an Apache group that comprises several Apache bands, living in the southwestern United States east of the Rio Grande.
- the Athabascan language of the Lipan.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Lipan1
First recorded in 1845–50; from Spanish Lipán, from Lipan self-designation Hleh-pai Ndé or Lépai-Ndé “Light Gray People” (a reference to the migration history of the Lipan)
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Example Sentences
On the way Mr. Bartlett was visited by five of the principal chiefs of the Lipan Indians, accompanied by warriors.
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At Lipan the moderate party had been beaten back but not routed.
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The moral of the fight of Lipan was indeed the same as the moral of the fight of Hastings.
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If they were the same band that had harried the frontier town, then were they southern Indians—Comanche or Lipan.
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You've grown a head taller since you was captured, and they've made a Lipan of you all over but in two places.
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