Biloxi
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English
Etymology
From Biloxi (“first people”).
Noun
Biloxi (plural Biloxi or Biloxis)
- A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
Proper noun
Biloxi
- The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
- A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
- A village in southeastern Texas.
Further reading
- “Biloxi”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.