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Cherokee, n. and a.|ˈtʃɛrəʊkiː, tʃɛrəʊˈkiː|
[f. Cherokee Tsárăgĭ.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) an Iroquoian North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large portion of the southern United States.
b. Their language, esp. as a type of something unintelligible (cf. Greek n. 8).
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or concerned with, the Cherokees. Cherokee rose: a wild rose of the southern United States, Rosa lævigata; also ellipt.
1674H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 460 Amongst which dividing branches inhabit ye Cowatoe and Chorakae Indians. 1699E. Randolph Let. 22 Mar. in W. J. Rivers Hist. South Carol. (1856) 449 He would..take with him 50 White men and 100 of the Chirakues Indians. 1716in N. Carolina Col. Rec. (1886) II. 256 The officers who shall command the said soldiers in the said Cherokee expedition. 1721Ibid. 422 The remaining 3800 Indians are the Cherokees. 1725G. Chicken in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Col. (1916) 97 The place I ordered the Cherokee Indians (then down) to go to. Ibid. 139 The Slav's..talk good English as well as the Cherokee Language. 1765J. Habersham Let. 18 May in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1904) VI. 36 Our clear Creek Leather is now rather esteemed better than Cherokee. 1765H. Timberlake Mem. 56, I shall present the following specimen, without the original in Cherokee. 1788J. Atkinson Match for Widow 52 This is all Cherokee to me—I don't understand a word of your simile. 1823D. Douglas Jrnl. (1914) 26 Roses Champneya, Cherokee, and two others. 1829A. Eaton Man. Botany (ed. 5) 368 Rosa laevigata, Cherokee rose. 1834W. G. Simms Guy Rivers II. xi. 138 The reader has already heard something of the Cherokee pony... They are a small, but compactly made and hardy creature. 1836C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron (1838) vi. 53 He..asked me some questions about the Cherokee rose-hedge, and other objects in view, which were novelties to him. 1836J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. 96 An old Cherokee, named Rodger. 1868Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. VII. 142 The long-horned or Cherokee cattle passing through North Carolina and Virginia on their way to the Northern markets. 1918Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 172/1 Yet above all other flowers I prefer these—Cherokee roses. 1946E. A. Nida Morphology p. v, Linguists will..recognize many of the problems as being drawn from Greek, Latin,..Cherokee, and Navaho. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 30/1 A thousand-mile march—called to this day ‘the trail of tears’ by the Cherokee. Ibid. 34/4 Lloyd New, one of a family of 10 Cherokee children. |