Tehuelche
noun
a member of an Indigenous people of Patagonia.
Tehuelches
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pluralof Tehuelche.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was a scene of austere beauty: the rolling plain, broken here and there by basalt outcroppings where the native Tehuelches took shelter from the wind and lie in wait for passing game.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2019
The Tehuelches carry guns and pistols to some extent, but chiefly for use against the spirits.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Though Magellan called the natives Patagonians, the Fuegians called them Tiremenen, the Chilians Caucalhues, the colonists of Carmen Tehuelches, the Araucans Huiliches; Bougainville gives them the name of Chauha, and Falkner that of Tehuelhets.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
The Rev. Titus Coan, the Yankee missionary who went to Patagonia, but concluded that the Arab-like life of the Tehuelches was unsuited to Yankee missionary tastes, found runaway sailors among the Tehuelches.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Horse meat is the greatest of delicacies to them as it is to the Tehuelches.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
