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appaloosa

Definitions

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  • noun southern US A catfish.
  • noun US A breed of horse having a spotted rump.

Etymologies

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Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is Choctaw, the second element of it being losa ("black"); the first element is variously supposed to be a term for "head" or "skull", "leggings", "moccasins", or "body".

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From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans. The river is named for the Palouse region; whether the region's name is (an anglicisation of) a francisation of the Sahaptin name of the Palus people or the people's name derives from a French designation of the region as pelouse is unclear.

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Examples

  • An appaloosa is described as having white scleras when an easily seen white area completely encircles the iris of the eye.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • An appaloosa is described as having white scleras when an easily seen white area completely encircles the iris of the eye.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • An appaloosa is described as having white scleras when an easily seen white area completely encircles the iris of the eye.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • Yes | No | Report from shermanator wrote 7 weeks 1 day ago what so that is what and appaloosa deer looks like sweet

    Field & Stream 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from shermanator wrote 7 weeks 1 day ago what so that is what and appaloosa deer looks like sweet

    Field & Stream 2009

  • The bell tingled again as Gladys Fein rushed in and bumped into Xavier Hodge with his black and white hair like an appaloosa.

    The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven 2010

  • When she looks at the mustang, framed against the wide prairie sky, Ms. Jimenez thinks of her husband petting his beloved appaloosa, Blackjack.

    A Horse of a Different Color Divides Denver Stephanie Simon 2009

  • Then the little appaloosa mare next door, heavy with foal and feeling ornery, ears flattening against her head every time the chestnut approached on the other side of the bars.

    The Break...Humour and Blessings Angcat 2008

  • Then the little appaloosa mare next door, heavy with foal and feeling ornery, ears flattening against her head every time the chestnut approached on the other side of the bars.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Belinda 2008

  • At my parents' house yesterday, I looked the window to their backyard, to my father's snow-covered garden and little red barn that served long ago as a stable for an appaloosa horse.

    Archive 2008-12-01 e 2008

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  • hernesheir commented on the word appaloosa

    From the "Palouse" region of NW Idaho and E. Washington. Referred to by old timers as "a Palousie".

    August 4, 2009