Gros Ventre

(grō vänt)

  1. a member of a western group of the Arapaho, now living in Montana
  2. Hidatsa

Origin: Fr, lit., big belly

See Gros Ventre in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Gros Ventre or Gros Ventres (väntˌ)
  1. See Atsina.
  2. See Hidatsa.

Origin:

Origin: French, big belly

Origin: : gros, big

Origin: + ventre, belly (from an indigenous sign-language gesture designating this people that suggested a big belly)

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