| 释义 |
Nez Percé, Nez Perce|nɛz pɜːse, pɜːs|
[Fr., lit. ‘pierced nose’.]
A member of a group of North American Indians; also, the language of this people. Also attrib.
1812in S. Dakota Hist. Coll. (1908) IV. 157 The..Nez Perce nation have a tradition that the human race spring from this dog [sc. the prairie dog] and the beaver. 1832in Overland to Pacific (1934) IV. 120 Here we found about 120 Lodges of the Nez Perces and about 80 of the Flatheads. 1841G. Catlin Lett. on N. Amer. Indians II. 108 The Nez Percés who inhabit the upper waters..of the Columbia,..are seldom known to flatten the head. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 67/1 Practically the only rupture in these relations was the Nez Percé war of 1877. 1926L. A. Clare tr. Lévy-Bruhl's How Natives Think iv. 157 With the Nez-percés, verbs assume different forms according to whether the subject or object is advancing or retreating. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory ix. 133 The Nez Percé myths dictated by an old native woman to her college-bred son form another notable instance. 1949Pacific Discovery May–June 16/1 According to some it is derived from the Nez Percé word meaning ‘muddy water’. 1959E. Tunis Indians 112/1 The northern Shoshone, the Nez Percé, and some other tribes obtained horses and were transformed into reasonable facsimiles of Plains Indians. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 78 Languages of sure affiliation{ddd}Nez Perce (Penutian). 1968[see Ibo a. and n. B. 1 b]. 1969Language XLV. 45 Sahaptian..has two members: Nez Perce and Sahaptin. Nez Perce was spoken in parts of present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Nov. 1425/1 Joseph, last of the Nez Percé, non-treaty chiefs, was restricted to a Washington reservation. |