Tillamookn.adj.

1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 25 Jan. in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Expedition (1904) IV. 12 I have lately learned that the natives whome I have heretofore named as distinct nations, living on the sea coast S.E. of the Killamucks, are only bands of that numerous nation.

1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. 259 Near the mouth of the Columbia, along the coast, are the Killamooks who are numerous, but their numbers are not known.

1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 750/2 Tillamook,..a large and prominent Salish tribe on Tillamook bay and the rivers flowing into it, in N.W. Oregon.

1927 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 4 120 Tillamook is referred to as an ‘Interior dialect’ of Salishan.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 122 The question as to whether Tillamook is a dead or living language has not as yet been satisfactorily answered, although for all practical purposes it is dead in Oregon at the present time.

1979 L. C. Thompson in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 704 The Northern Interior languages were then between two areas where *a was being fronted and raised. A similar change can be inferred for Tillamook, for which Boas' own recordings show almost invariably [a]; but..in the 1960s, the last known speakers of the language used almost exclusively [æ, ɛ] in the pertinent positions.

1844 D. Lee & J. H. Frost Ten Years in Oregon App. 339 (heading) A specimen of Indian dialects: Killemook dialect.

1893 J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Salishan Languages 6/1 Five stories in the Tilamook language.

1918 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 2 Nov. 11 (advt.) Serve a Tillamook cheese dish for dinner—save meat!.. Tillamook is America's prize full cream cheese, made in this famous little valley between the Coast range and the sea.

1921 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 7 June 194/2 Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Oreg. Filed July 31, 1920... Tillamook... Claims use since the middle of April, 1918.

1933 D. Collins Cheddar Box I. xviii. 215 In 1911—that was two years after the co-operatives established their inspection system with Fred Christensen in charge—most of the Tillamook cheese was rolling in over the mountains to Portland in box cars, instead of taking a sea voyage to get to market.

1955 B. Brown Compl. Bk. Cheese iv. 43 It takes two pocket-sized, but thick, yellow volumes to record the story of Oregon's great Tillamook.

1975 Business Week 14 Apr. 14 c San Francisco bureau manager Jack Wilson was raised in Oregon and still has a taste for Tillamook cheese.