Osages

Variant of Osage

Osage definition

Osage (ō sāj′, ō′sāj′)

noun

  1. pl. Osages Osag′·es or Osage Osage′ a member of a North American Indian people that migrated, over time, from the east coast of the U.S. to the Piedmont, then to Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma
  2. the Siouan language of this people

Etymology: < Osage Wazhazhe

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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