Taos
Americannoun
plural
Taos-
a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
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a member of an American Indian people occupying a pueblo in New Mexico.
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a town in N New Mexico: resort; art colony.
Example Sentences
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Yet one magnetic painting is atypical of that first stay in the Taos area: a striking ponderosa pine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
As she wrote in a letter to art critic and friend Henry McBride from Taos that summer, “This country is almost too much for anyone to have in this life.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
She and Mullican eventually got married and settled into a home in the Santa Monica Canyon where they split the remainder of their lives between Los Angeles and Taos, New Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
There are a few reasons the novelist Kate Christensen, speaking via video chat from her home in Taos, N.M., is discussing the best lobster rolls in Maine.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
At about one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Holly Goldsmith, an eighteen-year-old freshman from Taos, New Mexico, decided to take her golden retriever, Milo, for a walk.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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