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Lipan

[ li-pahn ]

noun

, plural Li·pans, (especially collectively) Li·pan
  1. a member of an Apache group that comprises several Apache bands, living in the southwestern United States east of the Rio Grande.
  2. the Athabascan language of the Lipan.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lipan1

First recorded in 1845–50; from Spanish Lipán, from Lipan self-designation Hleh-pai Ndé or Lépai-Ndé “Light Gray People” (a reference to the migration history of the Lipan)

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Example Sentences

On the way Mr. Bartlett was visited by five of the principal chiefs of the Lipan Indians, accompanied by warriors.

At Lipan the moderate party had been beaten back but not routed.

The moral of the fight of Lipan was indeed the same as the moral of the fight of Hastings.

If they were the same band that had harried the frontier town, then were they southern Indians—Comanche or Lipan.

You've grown a head taller since you was captured, and they've made a Lipan of you all over but in two places.

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