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Chiricahua
[ chir-i-kah-wuh ]
noun
, plural Chir·i·ca·huas, (especially collectively) Chir·i·ca·hua
- a member of an Apache group that comprises several Apache bands, formerly located in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- the Athabascan language of the Chiricahua, differing only dialectically from Navaho.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Chiricahua1
First recorded in 1885–90; via Spanish from Opata (extinct Uto-Aztecan language of Sonora) Chihuicahui or Chiguicagui “Mountain of the Wild Turkey” (now the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona)
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Example Sentences
The other was named Tze-go-juni, a Chiricahua, and a woman with a most romantic history.
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The amulet represented was obtained from a Chiricahua Apache captive.
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Is the whole Chiricahua tribe, reinforced by a swarm from the Sierra Blanca, concentrating on him now?
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He was a bronco Chiricahua whose tequa tracks were so long and devious that all of them can never be accounted for.
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They rode into the Chiricahua encampment just in time to see the women and children, with an escort of warriors, leaving.
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