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Caddo (kad′ō)

noun pl. Caddos -·dos or Caddo -·do

  1. a member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly living in Louisiana, Arkansas, and E Texas, now living mainly in Oklahoma
  2. the Caddoan language of these peoples

Etymology: Louisiana Fr Cadaux, shortened < Sp Cadojodacho < Caddo kaduhdá·čuʾ, name of a major group of the Caddo confederacy

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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