Peorian.1
/piːˈɔːrɪə/, U.S. /piˈɔriə/ 1. A member of a North American Indian people constituting one of the autonomous groups forming the Illinois people. Occasionally attributive.
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Shawnee1693
Illinois1698
Mascouten1698
Miami1698
Kickapoo1722
Peoria1722
Piankashaw1722
Sauk1722
1714 tr. H. Joutel Jrnl. Last Voy. M. de la Sale 170 The Visits of two Chiefs of Nations, call'd Cascasquia Peroueria and Cacahouanous..did not interrupt our Affairs.]
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 17 Besides the Illicouek, are the Nations Prouaria, the great Nation Cascasquia and Caracontouan.
1765 W. Smith Hist. Acct. Ohio Indians App. iv. 70 Names of the different Indian Nations in North-America, with the numbers of their fighting men... Pianria 800.
1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 51 The principal Indian nations in this country are, the Cascasquias, Kaoquias, Mitchigamias, and Peoryas; these four tribes are generally called the Illinois Indians.
1810 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. (1966) i. 209 By killing the celebrated Sauk chief Pontiac, the Illinois, Cahokias, Kaskaskias and Piorias, kindled a war with the..Sauks and Reynards.
1846 W. I. Kip tr. G. Marest Let. 9 Nov. in Early Jesuit Missions (1847) II. 215 In making this journey we could not avoid passing by the village of the Peouarias.
1874 F. Walker Indian Question 200 The Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, who were confederated in 1854..now number 160.
1956 Ethnohist. 3 208 A portion of the remaining Cahokias removed to the Peoria village at Lake Peoria.
2002 Amer. Indian Q. (Nexis) 31 July 352 After 1700 the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Michigamea and Tamaroa absorbed all the other groups into their ranks.
2. The Algonquian language of the Peorias (applied both to the dialect of the Peoria band and to the Illinois language generically). Now historical.
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1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 156 The form iníni is represented in Peoria, Miami, and other dialects also, but not as a substantive.
1912 T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 245 The Micmac conjunctive agrees partially with Peoria in having forms for the third person plural animate.
1925 Language 1 131 Every word in Primitive Central Algonquian (PCA) ended in a short vowel, which is normally preserved only in the Fox group and in Peoria.
1976 World Archaeol. 8 94 (list of language groups) Oto, Missouri, Iowa, and Peoria.
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Peorian.2
/piːˈɔːrɪə/, U.S. /piˈɔriə/ U.S. colloquial (somewhat depreciative).
allusively. Any place (in the United States) inhabited by people with plain, down-to-earth, conventional tastes and attitudes. Esp. in to play in Peoria and variants: (usually in negative or interrogative contexts) to appeal to the average American; (loosely) to be viable. Cf. Peorian n. 1.
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1924 These Eventful Years II. 407 Playgoers in Peoria could not hope to see as good a performance of a play as was to be seen in Broadway.
1935 Men's Wear 20 Mar. 48/2 Mr Leary..could tell a story about every piece of cloth in the shop and how a suit cut from it helped the wearer to ‘lay 'em in the aisles’ in Peoria.
1975 C. A. Tripp Homosexual Matrix i. 2 There are indications aplenty that sharp relaxations in the mores..do not really ‘play in Peoria’.
1989 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. h5/1 No one dreamed of scouting out jarring forums of New York downtown theater for material that could play in Peoria.
2002 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. iv. 16/1 But can a car smaller than a Volkswagen Beetle play in Peoria?
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