The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“This aquifer, they estimate, contains eight Lake Eries of water, and they have already nearly depleted one. It’s like draining the Great Lakes, but we don’t see it.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2016
In this way the Eries were in turn surprised and defeated in their last game with their rivals.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier
This custom of descent in the female line prevailed not only among the Iroquois proper, but also among the Wyandots, and probably among the Andastes and the Eries, extinct members of the great Iroquois family.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
On the southern shore the Eries planted themselves, while the Susquehannocks pushed on in a direction sufficiently described by their name.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
The Eries occupied the territory just south of Lake Erie, while the Neuter or Neutral towns lay on the north side of the lake—stretching up perhaps near to Niagara Falls.
From The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert
