- a variation of Ouachita.
Washita
Americannoun
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Washitas,
plural
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Washita
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Example Sentences
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He was known for his guitar playing with artists like Bob Dylan and John Lennon, but here he’s singing, “I was born on the banks of the Washita River.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Page’s family has been raising livestock in the bottomland along the Washita River for three generations.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
All night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We passed on around the town to the Caddo river, which empties into the Washita four miles above Arkadelphia.
From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Samuel A. Swiggett
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