Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting an area southwest of Great Salt Lake.
- noun The Uto-Aztecan language of this people, a dialect of Shoshone.
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Examples
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Army Captain James H. Simpson, exploring a wagon route through the area, shared that sentiment, watching with disgusted fascination as one hospitable Gosiute woman gutted a rat, squeezed out its intestines, and “threw the animal, entrails and all, into the pot.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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At the mouth of Rocky, or Egan, Canyon, 250 miles west of the Mormon capital, they encountered the forlorn Gosiute Indians, a literally dirt-poor tribe whose very name meant “parched earth.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Army Captain James H. Simpson, exploring a wagon route through the area, shared that sentiment, watching with disgusted fascination as one hospitable Gosiute woman gutted a rat, squeezed out its intestines, and “threw the animal, entrails and all, into the pot.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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At the mouth of Rocky, or Egan, Canyon, 250 miles west of the Mormon capital, they encountered the forlorn Gosiute Indians, a literally dirt-poor tribe whose very name meant “parched earth.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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His practice covered a section the size of Connecticut, and his patients included a whole tribe of Gosiute Indians.
Archive 2006-11-01 Mother Jones RN 2006
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His practice covered a section the size of Connecticut, and his patients included a whole tribe of Gosiute Indians.
Pulp Psychology Mother Jones RN 2006
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a Gosiute, in excellent preservation, was obtained, and has been presented to the Army Medical Museum.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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