Cherokeeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtʃɛrəkiː/,

/ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɛrəˌki/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Cherokees.

Forms:

α. 1600s Chirakue, 1600s Chorakae, 1700s Charakee, 1700s Charakey, 1700s Charaky, 1700s Charikee, 1700s Charokee, 1700s Cheerake, 1700s Cheeraque, 1700s Cheraguee, 1700s Cherakee, 1700s Cheraquee, 1700s Cheraqui, 1700s Cherichee, 1700s Cherickee, 1700s Cherikee, 1700s Cheroke, 1700s Cherookee, 1700s Cheroquee, 1700s Cherrackee, 1700s Cherrokee, 1700s Cherrykee, 1700s Chirrikey, 1700s Choraki, 1700s– Cherokee, 1800s Cheroki.

β. 1700s Cheelake, 1700s Sulluggoes (plural), 1800s Chalakee, 1800s Chelaque, 1800s Chelekee, 1800s Chellokee, 1800s Chelokee.

Origin: A borrowing from Cherokee. Etymon: Cherokee tsàràki.

Etymology: < Lower Cherokee †tsàràki and (in β. forms) the corresponding Upper and Middle Cherokee tsàlàki (also written càlàki), self-designation, of uncertain origin, perhaps originally a loanword.The name of the people may be reflected earlier in Spanish sources in the place name Chalaque , denoting the territory of a local people (1540); compare also Spanish Chalaquies , the name of a people (1723 in a work using older documents), although in each case there is no direct evidence identifying the people as the Cherokee. With sense B. 2b compare earlier Greek n. 8 and Hebrew n. 2b.

A. adj.

1. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Cherokee (sense B. 1) or their language.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [adjective]

Cherokee1674

Chickasaw1726

Yamasee1741

Natchez1744

Alabama1775

Coushatta1775

Alabaman1818

Santee1833

Mobilian1840

Karankawa1852

Muskogee1891

Opelousa1911

the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Iroquoian > of specific Iroquoian languages

Cherokee1674

Wyandot1780

Nottoway1822

Onondaga1974

1674 H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 460 Amongst which dividing branches inhabit ye Cowatoe and Chorakae Indians.

1699 E. Randolph Let. 22 Mar. in W. J. Rivers Hist. S. Carolina (1856) 449 He would..take with him 50 White men and 100 of the Chirakues Indians.

1716 in Colonial Rec. N. Carolina (1886) II. 256 The officers who shall command the said soldiers in the said Cherokee expedition.

1778 in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 306 This deponent says, that he does not understand the Cherokee Tongue.

1849 C. Lanman Lett. from Alleghany Mts. i. 12 After the State Legislature had divided the Cherokee Purchase into lots..everybody was on tiptoe with regard to its distribution.

1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 142 The long-horned or Cherokee cattle passing through North Carolina and Virginia on their way to the Northern markets.

1919 Outing Mar. 314/1 (caption) The Cherokee Syllabary invented by Sequoya.

1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 34/4 Lloyd New, one of a family of 10 Cherokee children.

2014 Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix (Nexis) 17 May Veterans who are members of the Cherokee Nation can now choose from several locations to receive health care.

2. U.S. Of or relating to the Cherokee rose; consisting of Cherokee roses. See Cherokee rose n. at Compounds. Now rare.

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1823 Amer. Farmer 9 May 54/2 The beautiful Cherokee hedge fence, extending eight or ten miles around Poplar Grove plantation.

1888 Harper's Mag. May 867/1 Their only exit lay at the end of the Cherokee hedge.

1910 W. Packard Florida Trails 68 In and out among the cherokee thorns the wanton jasmine climbs.

1929 Amer. Rose Ann. 14 78 The Cherokee flowers are larger, usually white; the Prairie's, almost always pink.

1958 I. Ross First Lady of South xiii. 236 The Cherokee hedge close to the Andrews home, flinging its white festoons around the sycamore tree at the gate, reminded Varina in the midst of all her misery of The Briers.

B. n.

1. A member of an Iroquoian people originally of the interior south-eastern United States, now living in north-eastern Oklahoma and western North Carolina.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun]

Floridian1589

Chickasaw1674

Yamasee1699

Alabama1708

Natchez1708

Santee1709

Cherokee1721

Choctaw1722

Coushatta1722

Creek1725

Yuchi1738

Muskogee1751

Floridan1763

Muskogee1789

Mikasuki1791

Opelousa1805

Karankawa1806

Tunica1806

Melungeon1813

Alabamian1817

Ozark1819

Alabaman1829

1721 Representation Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations (1854) 23 The remaining 3800 Indians are the Cherokees.

1755 R. Dinwiddie Let. 14 Dec. in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 149 The Cherokees have taken up the Hatchet against the French & Shawnese.

1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. 96 An old Cherokee, named Rodger.

1884 A. R. Hope Wigwam & War-path 227 Though forced to accept these terms, the Cherokees did not hide their discontentment.

1919 Dial. Notes 5 38 An old Cherokee, replying..to an inquiry as to the health of his wife, said: ‘He some better now, him stand up in bed an' eat coffee.’

1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 30/1 A thousand-mile march—called to this day ‘the trail of tears’ by the Cherokee.

2015 A. Yasuda What's Great about N. Carolina? 10 The Cherokee have lived in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains for thousands of years.

a. The Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, the sole member of the Southern Iroquoian branch of the language family.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages

Mohawk1754

Cherokee1761

Huron1776

Nottoway1830

Wyandot1837

Onondaga1887

Cayuga1933

Oneida1933

Tuscarora1933

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xli. 194 Toby was in fact as ignorant of the whole lecture..as if my father had been translating Hafen Slawkenbergius from the Latin tongue into Cherokee.

1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 56 I shall present the following specimen, without the original in Cherokee.

1832 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. Apr. 180 At the same time have also been published in Cherokee, the Gospel of Matthew, and a Hymn book.

1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 218 In Cheroki..nad-hol-i-nin means ‘bring us the boat’.

1946 E. A. Nida Morphol. p. v Linguists will..recognize many of the problems as being drawn from Greek, Latin,..Cherokee, and Navaho.

2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons i. ii. 13 I remember, when I was a boy, reading him long episodes from the Morte d'Arthur and the Quixote, translating into Cherokee on the fly.

†b. to be (all) Cherokee to: to be obscure, unintelligible, or difficult to understand. Obsolete.

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1788 J. Atkinson Match for Widow 52 This is all Cherokee to me—I don't understand a word of your simile.

1825 London Mag. June 182 In truth, half of it is Cherokee to me.

1866 M. Reid Bandolero xxvii. 176 As his talk was Cherokee to the general—perhaps not so well understood—he was motioned to make his communication to me.

Compounds

Cherokee plum n. the Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia.

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?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 142/2 The Chicasaw & Cheroke Plumbs are a delicious & excellent fruit.

1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 32 Hoed the ground behind the garden again and planted therein, in three rows, 177 of the wild, or Cherokee plumb.

1842 J. S. Buckingham Slave States Amer. I. xxxv. 543 The Cherokee plum, small, light, red, and of a fleshy pulp, is also abundant here, but the taste was more bitter than sweet.

1927 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 12 Mar. 4/3 The Cherokee plum was in bloom on the 20th of January.

2013 S. S. Parrish in R. Beverley Hist. Virginia (new ed.) 290 The native cherries to which Beverley refers were most likely varieties of plum, as in the Indian cherry, now known as the Chickasaw or Cherokee plum (Prunus angustifolia).

Cherokee rose n. a climbing rose native to southeast Asia and naturalized in the southeastern United States, Rosa laevigata, having fragrant white flowers, hooked thorns, and bright red hips covered with bristles.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush

summer rosea1456

French rose1538

damask rose?a1547

musk rose1559

province1562

winter rose1577

Austrian brier1590

rose of Provence1597

velvet rose1597

damasine-rose1607

Provence rose1614

blush-rose1629

maiden's blush1648

monthly rose tree1664

Provinsa1678

York and Lancaster rose1688

cinnamon rose1699

muscat rose1707

cabbage rose1727

China-rose1731

old-fashioned rose1773

moss rose1777

swamp rose1785

alba1797

Cherokee rose1804

Macartney rose1811

shepherd's rose1818

multiflora1820

prairie rose1822

Boursault1826

Banksian rose1827

maiden rose1827

moss1829

Noisette1829

seven sisters rose1830

Dundee rambler1834

Banksia rose1835

Chickasaw rose1835

Bourbon1836

climbing rose1836

green rose1837

hybrid China1837

Jaune Desprez1837

Lamarque1837

perpetual1837

pillar rose1837

rambler1837

wax rose1837

rugosa1840

China1844

Manetti1846

Banksian1847

remontant1847

gallica1848

hybrid perpetual1848

Persian Yellow1848

pole rose1848

monthly1849

tea rose1850

quarter sessions rose1851

Gloire de Dijon1854

Jacqueminot1857

Maréchal Niel1864

primrose1864

jack1867

La France1868

tea1869

Ramanas rose1876

Japanese rose1883

polyantha1883

old rose1885

American Beauty1887

hybrid tea1890

Japan rose1895

roselet1896

floribunda1898

Zéphirine Drouhin1901

Penzance briar1902

Dorothy Perkins1903

sweetheart1905

wichuraiana1907

mermaid1918

species rose1930

sweetheart rose1936

peace1944

shrub rose1948

1804 T. Jefferson Jrnl. 29 Apr. in Garden Bk. (1944) 291 Planted seeds of the Cherokee rose.

1820 Amer. Farmer 7 July 118/1 It is now more properly known by the name of Cherokee Rose, on account of its being found in the greatest abundance in the tract of country inhabited by the Cherokee Indians.

1944 Quarterly (Hist. Soc. S. Calif.) 26 156 A ramshackle affair of clapboards..hedged in from the dusty street by a fence of Cherokee roses.

2007 P. J. Gartin Some like it Hot 64 The abundantly thorny Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata).

Cherokee Strip n. now historical a strip of land formerly inhabited by the Cherokee and later ceded to white settlers, spec. the area located in the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Kansas.

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1869 Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) 29 July 2/2 About 30 miles southwest of Oswego, on the so-called Cherokee strip.

1964 H. S. Drago Outlaws on Horseback x. 92 He..had a wide acquaintance among..the pioneers of Old Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip.

2007 Amer. Anthropologist 109 413/1 Ramírez-Ferrero's objective in Troubled Fields is to delineate the consequences of agroindustrialization for family farmers in the Cherokee Strip.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cherokee
释义	Cherokeeadj.n. Brit. /ˈtʃɛrəkiː/, /ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː/, U.S. /ˈtʃɛrəˌki/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Cherokees. Forms: α. 1600s Chirakue, 1600s Chorakae, 1700s Charakee, 1700s Charakey, 1700s Charaky, 1700s Charikee, 1700s Charokee, 1700s Cheerake, 1700s Cheeraque, 1700s Cheraguee, 1700s Cherakee, 1700s Cheraquee, 1700s Cheraqui, 1700s Cherichee, 1700s Cherickee, 1700s Cherikee, 1700s Cheroke, 1700s Cherookee, 1700s Cheroquee, 1700s Cherrackee, 1700s Cherrokee, 1700s Cherrykee, 1700s Chirrikey, 1700s Choraki, 1700s– Cherokee, 1800s Cheroki. β. 1700s Cheelake, 1700s Sulluggoes (plural), 1800s Chalakee, 1800s Chelaque, 1800s Chelekee, 1800s Chellokee, 1800s Chelokee. Origin: A borrowing from Cherokee. Etymon: Cherokee tsàràki. Etymology: < Lower Cherokee †tsàràki and (in β. forms) the corresponding Upper and Middle Cherokee tsàlàki (also written càlàki), self-designation, of uncertain origin, perhaps originally a loanword.The name of the people may be reflected earlier in Spanish sources in the place name Chalaque , denoting the territory of a local people (1540); compare also Spanish Chalaquies , the name of a people (1723 in a work using older documents), although in each case there is no direct evidence identifying the people as the Cherokee. With sense B. 2b compare earlier Greek n. 8 and Hebrew n. 2b. A. adj. 1. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Cherokee (sense B. 1) or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [adjective] Cherokee1674 Chickasaw1726 Yamasee1741 Natchez1744 Alabama1775 Coushatta1775 Alabaman1818 Santee1833 Mobilian1840 Karankawa1852 Muskogee1891 Opelousa1911 the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Iroquoian > of specific Iroquoian languages Cherokee1674 Wyandot1780 Nottoway1822 Onondaga1974 1674 H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 460 Amongst which dividing branches inhabit ye Cowatoe and Chorakae Indians. 1699 E. Randolph Let. 22 Mar. in W. J. Rivers Hist. S. Carolina (1856) 449 He would..take with him 50 White men and 100 of the Chirakues Indians. 1716 in Colonial Rec. N. Carolina (1886) II. 256 The officers who shall command the said soldiers in the said Cherokee expedition. 1778 in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 306 This deponent says, that he does not understand the Cherokee Tongue. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. from Alleghany Mts. i. 12 After the State Legislature had divided the Cherokee Purchase into lots..everybody was on tiptoe with regard to its distribution. 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 142 The long-horned or Cherokee cattle passing through North Carolina and Virginia on their way to the Northern markets. 1919 Outing Mar. 314/1 (caption) The Cherokee Syllabary invented by Sequoya. 1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 34/4 Lloyd New, one of a family of 10 Cherokee children. 2014 Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix (Nexis) 17 May Veterans who are members of the Cherokee Nation can now choose from several locations to receive health care. 2. U.S. Of or relating to the Cherokee rose; consisting of Cherokee roses. See Cherokee rose n. at Compounds. Now rare. ΚΠ 1823 Amer. Farmer 9 May 54/2 The beautiful Cherokee hedge fence, extending eight or ten miles around Poplar Grove plantation. 1888 Harper's Mag. May 867/1 Their only exit lay at the end of the Cherokee hedge. 1910 W. Packard Florida Trails 68 In and out among the cherokee thorns the wanton jasmine climbs. 1929 Amer. Rose Ann. 14 78 The Cherokee flowers are larger, usually white; the Prairie's, almost always pink. 1958 I. Ross First Lady of South xiii. 236 The Cherokee hedge close to the Andrews home, flinging its white festoons around the sycamore tree at the gate, reminded Varina in the midst of all her misery of The Briers. B. n. 1. A member of an Iroquoian people originally of the interior south-eastern United States, now living in north-eastern Oklahoma and western North Carolina. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun] Floridian1589 Chickasaw1674 Yamasee1699 Alabama1708 Natchez1708 Santee1709 Cherokee1721 Choctaw1722 Coushatta1722 Creek1725 Yuchi1738 Muskogee1751 Floridan1763 Muskogee1789 Mikasuki1791 Opelousa1805 Karankawa1806 Tunica1806 Melungeon1813 Alabamian1817 Ozark1819 Alabaman1829 1721 Representation Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations (1854) 23 The remaining 3800 Indians are the Cherokees. 1755 R. Dinwiddie Let. 14 Dec. in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 149 The Cherokees have taken up the Hatchet against the French & Shawnese. 1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. 96 An old Cherokee, named Rodger. 1884 A. R. Hope Wigwam & War-path 227 Though forced to accept these terms, the Cherokees did not hide their discontentment. 1919 Dial. Notes 5 38 An old Cherokee, replying..to an inquiry as to the health of his wife, said: ‘He some better now, him stand up in bed an' eat coffee.’ 1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 30/1 A thousand-mile march—called to this day ‘the trail of tears’ by the Cherokee. 2015 A. Yasuda What's Great about N. Carolina? 10 The Cherokee have lived in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains for thousands of years. 2. a. The Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, the sole member of the Southern Iroquoian branch of the language family. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages Mohawk1754 Cherokee1761 Huron1776 Nottoway1830 Wyandot1837 Onondaga1887 Cayuga1933 Oneida1933 Tuscarora1933 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xli. 194 Toby was in fact as ignorant of the whole lecture..as if my father had been translating Hafen Slawkenbergius from the Latin tongue into Cherokee. 1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 56 I shall present the following specimen, without the original in Cherokee. 1832 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. Apr. 180 At the same time have also been published in Cherokee, the Gospel of Matthew, and a Hymn book. 1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 218 In Cheroki..nad-hol-i-nin means ‘bring us the boat’. 1946 E. A. Nida Morphol. p. v Linguists will..recognize many of the problems as being drawn from Greek, Latin,..Cherokee, and Navaho. 2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons i. ii. 13 I remember, when I was a boy, reading him long episodes from the Morte d'Arthur and the Quixote, translating into Cherokee on the fly. †b. to be (all) Cherokee to: to be obscure, unintelligible, or difficult to understand. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1788 J. Atkinson Match for Widow 52 This is all Cherokee to me—I don't understand a word of your simile. 1825 London Mag. June 182 In truth, half of it is Cherokee to me. 1866 M. Reid Bandolero xxvii. 176 As his talk was Cherokee to the general—perhaps not so well understood—he was motioned to make his communication to me. Compounds Cherokee plum n. the Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia. ΚΠ ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 142/2 The Chicasaw & Cheroke Plumbs are a delicious & excellent fruit. 1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 32 Hoed the ground behind the garden again and planted therein, in three rows, 177 of the wild, or Cherokee plumb. 1842 J. S. Buckingham Slave States Amer. I. xxxv. 543 The Cherokee plum, small, light, red, and of a fleshy pulp, is also abundant here, but the taste was more bitter than sweet. 1927 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 12 Mar. 4/3 The Cherokee plum was in bloom on the 20th of January. 2013 S. S. Parrish in R. Beverley Hist. Virginia (new ed.) 290 The native cherries to which Beverley refers were most likely varieties of plum, as in the Indian cherry, now known as the Chickasaw or Cherokee plum (Prunus angustifolia). Cherokee rose n. a climbing rose native to southeast Asia and naturalized in the southeastern United States, Rosa laevigata, having fragrant white flowers, hooked thorns, and bright red hips covered with bristles. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush summer rosea1456 French rose1538 damask rose?a1547 musk rose1559 province1562 winter rose1577 Austrian brier1590 rose of Provence1597 velvet rose1597 damasine-rose1607 Provence rose1614 blush-rose1629 maiden's blush1648 monthly rose tree1664 Provinsa1678 York and Lancaster rose1688 cinnamon rose1699 muscat rose1707 cabbage rose1727 China-rose1731 old-fashioned rose1773 moss rose1777 swamp rose1785 alba1797 Cherokee rose1804 Macartney rose1811 shepherd's rose1818 multiflora1820 prairie rose1822 Boursault1826 Banksian rose1827 maiden rose1827 moss1829 Noisette1829 seven sisters rose1830 Dundee rambler1834 Banksia rose1835 Chickasaw rose1835 Bourbon1836 climbing rose1836 green rose1837 hybrid China1837 Jaune Desprez1837 Lamarque1837 perpetual1837 pillar rose1837 rambler1837 wax rose1837 rugosa1840 China1844 Manetti1846 Banksian1847 remontant1847 gallica1848 hybrid perpetual1848 Persian Yellow1848 pole rose1848 monthly1849 tea rose1850 quarter sessions rose1851 Gloire de Dijon1854 Jacqueminot1857 Maréchal Niel1864 primrose1864 jack1867 La France1868 tea1869 Ramanas rose1876 Japanese rose1883 polyantha1883 old rose1885 American Beauty1887 hybrid tea1890 Japan rose1895 roselet1896 floribunda1898 Zéphirine Drouhin1901 Penzance briar1902 Dorothy Perkins1903 sweetheart1905 wichuraiana1907 mermaid1918 species rose1930 sweetheart rose1936 peace1944 shrub rose1948 1804 T. Jefferson Jrnl. 29 Apr. in Garden Bk. (1944) 291 Planted seeds of the Cherokee rose. 1820 Amer. Farmer 7 July 118/1 It is now more properly known by the name of Cherokee Rose, on account of its being found in the greatest abundance in the tract of country inhabited by the Cherokee Indians. 1944 Quarterly (Hist. Soc. S. Calif.) 26 156 A ramshackle affair of clapboards..hedged in from the dusty street by a fence of Cherokee roses. 2007 P. J. Gartin Some like it Hot 64 The abundantly thorny Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata). Cherokee Strip n. now historical a strip of land formerly inhabited by the Cherokee and later ceded to white settlers, spec. the area located in the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Kansas. ΚΠ 1869 Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) 29 July 2/2 About 30 miles southwest of Oswego, on the so-called Cherokee strip. 1964 H. S. Drago Outlaws on Horseback x. 92 He..had a wide acquaintance among..the pioneers of Old Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip. 2007 Amer. Anthropologist 109 413/1 Ramírez-Ferrero's objective in Troubled Fields is to delineate the consequences of agroindustrialization for family farmers in the Cherokee Strip. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Cherokeev. Forms: see Cherokee n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Cherokee n. Etymology: < Cherokee n., with reference to a hairstyle associated with Cherokee women.Compare the following late 18th-cent. passage, describing a hairstyle of indigenous women in a region also inhabited by the Cherokee:1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina iv. iii. 503 They never cut their hair, but plait it in wreathes, which is turned up, and fastened on the crown, with a silver broach, forming a wreathed top-knot. U.S. Obsolete. transitive. To arrange (the hair) in a style associated with Cherokee women. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > arrange > in a specific style French1762 Cherokee1765 puff1884 pompadour1887 quiff1940 1765 H. Bouquet Let. 24 Jan. in Papers Henry Bouquet (1994) VI. 749 Married Ladies at New York go constantly to the assembly, and the Girls don't Cherakee their hair. 1771 Massachusetts Spy 1 Mar. An old fashioned lady, with a foretop of hair Cherokeed to imitate the Indian dress. 1779 U.S. Mag. July 308/1 Does not your hair cherokee'd, toupeed, raised in form of a pyramid.., or loosely flowing on the shoulders, revolve thro' as varied a whimsicality of modes as any females on the continent? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < adj.n.1674v.1765
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Cherokeeadj.n.

Compounds

† Cherokeev.