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Piute

noun
1.
A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States.  Synonym: Paiute.





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"Piute" Quotes from Famous Books



... to attend a sick man! If Doc Millikin had your case, he made the terrors of death seem like an invitation to a donkey-party. He had the bedside manners of a Piute medicine-man and the soothing presence of a dray loaded with iron bridge-girders. When he laid his hand on your fevered brow you felt like Cap John Smith just before Pocahontas ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


Words linked to "Piute" :   Paiute, Shoshoni, Shoshone


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