Quichua
Americannoun
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Quichuas,
plural
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Quichua
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noun
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Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a field in the Quichua community of San Pedro Sumino in the province of Napo in the Ecuadorean jungle.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2013
The claimants called themselves Los Afectados, or the affected ones, and among their ranks were members of the Cofan and Quichua tribes.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 10, 2011
I speak slowly in Quichua, each word an effort.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
“But I don’t speak much Quichua either, senora. I used to, but now the words feel strange coming out of my mouth.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
I’m deep into Soledad’s story, which is going to be juicier than any soap opera, when Manuelito appears at the edge of the eucalyptus grove, shouts something in Quichua, and then runs away.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
So far as we could learn by questions and observation, about one quarter of the Quichuas are childless.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
As might have been foreseen, he chafed under restraint, escaped as soon as possible from his attentive guardians, and raised an army of faithful Quichuas.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
An elevated region called by the Quichuas the Puna, or “the uninhabited,” must be described.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
"Only this, Lord," answered their spokesman, "Fight you must, of that there can be no doubt, but we would fight with you, the ten of the Chancas against the ten of the Quichuas."
From The Virgin of the Sun by Henry Rider Haggard
It is, however, more reasonable to suppose that the Quichuas and Aimaras were a race of emigrants from Plato's island than to think that Atlantis was populated from South America.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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