Quileute

[ kwil-yoot, kwil-uh-yoot ]

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noun

plural Quileutes, (especially collectively) Quileute

a member of an Indigenous people of western Washington State.
the language of the Quileute, also spoken by the Hoh.

adjective

of or relating to the Quileute or their language.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Quileute¹

First recorded in 1890–95; from Quilleute (a language of the extinct Chimakuan family of languages formerly spoken on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State) ��ʷ��ʔ��í·��ǳ�’, the name of a village at La Push, a small unincorporated community located at the mouth of the Quillayute River in Clallam County, Washington State

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Example Sentences

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Rather than press my face against the cold glass of my living room window and consider opening it to lean out and scream so hard that it causes me to pass out and fall like a bag of biscuits into the shrubbery beneath, I’m going to find comfort in the Cullens, the Swans and the shirtless wolf youths of the Quileute tribe.

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“His views on women are horrible,” said Viramonte, 74, a Harris backer who runs the espresso shop on the Quileute Indian Reservation in La Push.

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This past summer, even sopping Sasquatch bergs such as Quileute on the Olympic Peninsula have seen only 42% of normal rainfall since June, with just a little over 3 inches recorded at the Quileute Airport.

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The Quileute Tribe declared a fishery resource disaster after an algal bloom shut down its Dungeness harvest in 2015.

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Olympic National Park received $385,771 to fund projects including the development of a Native Conservation Corps program by youth members of the Quileute Tribe, the Terminus glacier memorial project, the Adventures in Your Big Backyard youth program and elk monitoring in the Hoh Rain Forest, according to WNPF.

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