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Taos|taʊs, ˈtɑːɒs|
The name of a town in New Mexico, used attrib. (occas. absol.) to designate members of a Pueblo Indian people living there, or the language of this people, a variety of Tiwa.
1844J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 86 A Taos Indian who formed one of the Mexican escort, seeing a gun levelled at his commander, sprang forward and received the ball in his own body, from the effects of which he instantly expired! 1887Scribner's Mag. II. 510 Then the saddle-blanket is laid over his withers, with sometimes a tilpah, or parti-colored rug, woven and dyed by the Navajo or Taos Indians. 1939Language XV. 51 The Taos language forms with that of Picurís..the northern branch of Tiwa. Ibid., The old people..speak Taos and Spanish. 1944B. Johnson As much as I Dare 287 Adobe walls around the garden and various nooks and vistas were being built by Taos Indian labor. 1964Language XL. 202 He has published an article describing the application of his system to the Taos language and culture. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 28 Taos and Picuris make only unpainted gold-tan pottery. 1978Language LIV. 233 ‘About the nearest he ever came to having fun’ was making charts of the Taos pronoun. 1978G. A. Sheehan Running & Being viii. 111 A Taos Indian chief had once told him that white men were covered with wrinkles because they were crazy. |