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• Nez Perce
  Nez Perce

  noun

  a member of a North American Indian people of the Sahaptin family.
• Nez Percé
  Nez Percé

  noun

  a member of a North American Indian people of the Pacific coast, a tribe of the Sahaptin

Nez Perce

American  

[nez purs, nay per-say] / ˈnɛz ˈpɜrs, neɪ pɛrˈseɪ /

Or Nez Percé

noun

• Nez Perces,
  plural
• Nez Perce
  plural

1. Also called Nimiipuu. a member of a North American Indian people of the Sahaptin family.

2. Also called Nimipuutimt. the Sahaptin language of the Nez Perce.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Nez Perce or their language.

Nez Percé British  

/ ˈnɛz ˈpɜːs, ne pɛrse /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people of the Pacific coast, a tribe of the Sahaptin

2. the Sahaptin language of this people

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Nez Perce
  plural
• Nez Perces
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Nez Perce

First recorded in 1805–15; from French: literally, “pierced nose”

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Example Sentences

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Nez Perce Nez Percé

The Nez Perce Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation also responded and helped by collecting and scanning transponders on the dead fish.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024

Employees from a local hatchery, members of the Nez Perce tribe and the Union County Sheriff’s Office came to help and to clean up the fish.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Gladstone, who is of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, is the first Native American actress to be nominated for an Oscar.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

The Nez Perce Tribe and other litigants contend that dam removal is necessary to prevent extinction of salmon in the Columbia Basin.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

He had been educated in English 84 and could understand me so as to interpret, rather translate into Nez Perce, but who could reach the people to whom we had the message?

From Trail Tales by James David Gillilan

They stand alongside the Nez Percé singer Julia Keefe — a songbird of a jazz vocalist, who also fronts a big band — and the Wabanaki bassist, composer and vocalist Mali Obomsawin.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

Army in 1877 after the U.S. government had appropriated Nez Percé land.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

But in 1911 the 21-year-old George competed against the fiercest cowboys in the Northwest: the Nez Percé Indian Jackson Sundown and the white rancher John Spain.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2019

From my room at the Best Western I downloaded images of the Nez Percé to show Rinpoche at dinner.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2012

Nothing daunted, however, he induced a Nez Percé woman to guide the party from the Palouse to the Lolo trail, from which they reached an unfrequented valley on the north fork of the Clearwater.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

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