Taos
Americannoun
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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.
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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
The Southern California-based brand Casetta has opened four redone Southern California motels and hotels, with two more opening soon in Los Angeles and Taos, N.M.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
In Taos, Zappa has found a measure of solace in the stark beauty of its mesas and snow-capped mountains.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024
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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