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Indian

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures. "Indian saris"

Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages. Synonyms: Amerind, Amerindic, Native American. "Indian arrowheads"

noun

A member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived. Synonyms: American Indian, Red Indian.

A native or inhabitant of India.

Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians. Synonyms: American-Indian language, American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian language.

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"Indian" Quotes from Famous Books

... be made only of the whole meal flour of the grain and well cleaned before grinding. Whole wheat flour, whole Indian Corn Meal, whole wheat and whole barley meal are examples ...

— The Suffrage Cook Book • L. O. Kleber

... Parliament, and to the peculiar laws, rights, and usages of the people of Hindostan. What reference, I say, had these topics to the Constitution of France, in which there is no king, no lords, no commons, no India Company to injure or support, no Indian empire to govern or oppress? What relation had all or any of these, or any question which could arise between the prerogatives of the crown and the privileges of Parliament, with the censure of those factious persons in Great Britain whom Mr. Burke states to ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... She's awful proud; proud as a Kentucky girl can be, and those people would make your uncle Lucifer look like a cringing cripple, but she'd live in an Indian hut ...

— Pardners • Rex Beach

... that battery might be taken easily. On the other hand it was also quite possible that this was a ruse and was meant to decoy the colonists within. The officer concluded to run the risk—of losing the life of some one else. Holding up a bottle of brandy before the thirsty gaze of an Indian, he said, "If I give you this, will you creep in at that embrasure and open the gate?" The red man grunted assent, crept in, and opened the gate. Then the officer and twelve men took possession. Soon a message went from the officer to his general as follows: "May it please your honor to be informed ...

— The Little Book of the Flag • Eva March Tappan

... Sea, over timberless tundras, across inlets where the new ice bent beneath their weight and where the mail-carrier cautiously tested the footing with the head of his ax. Sometimes they slept in their tent, or again in road-houses and in Indian villages. ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

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