Biloxi

(bə luksē, -läk)

noun

  1. pl. Biloxi or Biloxis a member of a North American Indian people that lived in the lower Mississippi Valley
  2. the Siouan language of this people, no longer spoken

Origin: Fr, earlier Bilocchy, prob. of Muskogean orig.

See Biloxi in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Biloxi Biloxi or Bi·lox·is
  1. a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting territory around Biloxi Bay in southeast Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico.
    b. A member of this people.
  2. The extinct Siouan language of the Biloxi.

Origin:

Origin: Alteration of Biloxi taneks anya, first people

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A city of southeast Mississippi on a peninsula between Biloxi Bay and Mississippi Sound on the Gulf of Mexico. Old Biloxi was settled by the French in 1699. Population: 44,300.

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