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Definition of Piute
1. Noun. A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piute
Literary usage of Piute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Jicarilla, and Piute were noted for beauty of design and execution, ... The Piute
of Nevada and others of that region wore blankets woven from strips of ..."
2. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"Mr. Bland's First Speech in Congress and the Piute War. ... Mr. Bland said the
Piute Indians were hard to fight, as they got behind trees. ..."
3. Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang (1901)
"... Mexican, Zulu, Macassar, Greenland, Piute, Malay—Thunder myths—Greek and Aryan
sun and moon myths—Star myths—Myths, savage and civilised, of animals, ..."
4. Ten Years in Nevada, Or, Life on the Pacific Coast by Mary McNair Mathews (1880)
"The Free Lunch-House—Kansas Sufferers—The Piute Indians. t~T was about the 1st
of April, the year '77, that business in Virginia City came to a state of ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Jicarilla, and Piute were noted for beauty of design and execution, ... The Piute
of Nevada and others of that region wore blankets woven from strips of ..."
6. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"Mr. Bland's First Speech in Congress and the Piute War. ... Mr. Bland said the
Piute Indians were hard to fight, as they got behind trees. ..."
7. Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang (1901)
"... Mexican, Zulu, Macassar, Greenland, Piute, Malay—Thunder myths—Greek and Aryan
sun and moon myths—Star myths—Myths, savage and civilised, of animals, ..."
8. Ten Years in Nevada, Or, Life on the Pacific Coast by Mary McNair Mathews (1880)
"The Free Lunch-House—Kansas Sufferers—The Piute Indians. t~T was about the 1st
of April, the year '77, that business in Virginia City came to a state of ..."
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