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Washitaw en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Ouachita.
    alt of Ouachita
    • […] the Washitaws with their lovely squaws are on their way to visit the Delawares, who have a reservation not far north of Lawrence. This sort of visiting they call "smoking ponies." 1953, The Kansas Magazine, page 89:
  2. A member of the Washitaw Nation, an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America and claiming to be a sovereign state of Native Americans within the United States.

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Washitaws Number=Plur lexicographic
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Washitaw en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Ouachita.
    alt of Ouachita
    • And out yonder beyont ^([sic]) the Washitaw is a little thin line that sometimes breaks into balloon swells. 1881, Charlotte Moore Clark, Baby Rue, page 172: