Chiricahua
noun
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.
Chiricahuas
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pluralof Chiricahua.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The whole line wheeled and shouted and searched hither and thither, and not any were more active than were the three Chiricahuas.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
All three of the Chiricahuas were with him at that moment.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
Colonel Evans felt badly enough, but his caprice for a chat with Tah-nu-nu had prevented the superstitious Chiricahuas from entirely avoiding the "bad medicine" of Kah-go-mish.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
You look out over a valley that spreads wide between Guadalupe Mountains an' the Chiricahuas, down across the red Arizona desert clear to the Sierra Madres in Mexico.
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Although of another band, which had become nominally friendly to the pale-faces, the Chiricahuas were as much Apaches as were the Mescaleros, and had been every way as bitterly opposed to life on any Reservation.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
