Osage
noun
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
Osages
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pluralof Osage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“To us, to Osages, there’s a direct silence about Native America,” Tinker Smith said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
“The truth is,” Thomas Jefferson admitted to the secretary of the Navy in 1804, the Osages “are the great nation South of the Missouri.”
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2014
In Little House on the Prairie, Ma overcomes her distaste for Indians and feeds the Osages, who own the land the Ingalls family mistakenly occupies; the chief later saves them from slaughter.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
Like the Cherokee, who developed a syllabary for their language in the early 1800s, the Osages use their own alphabet.
From Slate
And he insisted, “I will always be the Osages true Friend.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
