Chiricahua

[ chir-i-kah-wuh ]

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noun

, plural Chir·i·ca·huas, (especially collectively) Chir·i·ca·hua

a member of an Apache group that comprises several Apache bands, formerly located in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
the Athabascan language of the Chiricahua, differing only dialectically from Navaho.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1885–90; via Spanish from Opata (extinct Uto-Aztecan language of Sonora) Chihuicahui or Chiguicagui “Mountain of the Wild Turkey” (now the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona)

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Example Sentences

The other was named Tze-go-juni, a Chiricahua, and a woman with a most romantic history.

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The amulet represented was obtained from a Chiricahua Apache captive.

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Is the whole Chiricahua tribe, reinforced by a swarm from the Sierra Blanca, concentrating on him now?

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He was a bronco Chiricahua whose tequa tracks were so long and devious that all of them can never be accounted for.

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They rode into the Chiricahua encampment just in time to see the women and children, with an escort of warriors, leaving.

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