A|pach|e

A|pach|e
A|pach|e «uh PACH ee», noun, plural A|pach|es or A|pach|e.
1. a member of a tribe of Indians living in the southwestern United States. They were formerly warlike and nomadic.
2. the tribe itself.
3. their language, of the Athapascan stock.
╂[American English, apparently < American Spanish apache < Zuñi ápachu enemy (their name for the Navajos)]
a|pache «uh PAHSH, -PASH; French a PASH», noun, adjective.
–n.
a rough or rowdy person, especially one of a band of toughs or gangsters who operate in Paris and Brussels.
–adj.
of or designating a kind of very energetic dance in which the partners are dressed like an apache and his woman.
╂[< French apache, special use of English Apache]

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