| 单词 | red paint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRed Paint Red Paint n. [coined by W. K. Moorehead (compare quot. 1913)] attributive designating or relating to an ancient North American Indian people known from burials in which large quantities of red ochre were used. [The following shows independent earlier use referring to a different people: 1890 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 3 115 At the first examination, made before a great number had surrendered, sixty-four (64) gave in their names as Chokonni... Four (4) as Chi-é, or Red-Paint People. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > ancient peoples Hohokam1884 Red Paint1913 Ancestral Puebloan1994 1913 W.K. Moorehead in Amer. Anthropologist 15 42 After careful study of the specimens from the Red-paint graves no difficulty is encountered in distinguishing them from the Algonquian types. 1947 R. P. T. Coffin Yankee Coast 225 Before the dawn and the Dawn People, there were the Red Paint Men. 1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick iii. 43 ‘Red Paint’ Indian burial ground dating back 3,500 to 4,000 years; in the bottom of each grave is a covering of red ochre, bright red oxide. 1990 H. Thurston Tidal Life 39/1 I invariably return to shore so smeared and daubed that I look like one of the region's ancestral Red Paint People. < as lemmas |
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