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Wash•oe

or Wash•o

(wosh′ō, wô′shō)

n., pl. Wash•oes or Wash•os, (esp. collectively) Wash•oe or Wash•o.
1. a member of an American Indian people orig. centered in an area N, W, and SW of Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada.
2. the language of the Washoe.
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References in classic literature ?
And I know also that she can outrun your vaunted Washoe Ban.
She spurred Washoe Ban in pursuit, but he could not hold his own with the mad mare, and dropped gradually behind.
They may be darned sharp, but they're not quite sharp enough to catch a Washoe hunter."
In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the Senator, and everywhere the Donkey.
Washoe County reports its second fatal case of hantavirus since 2017.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that as of December in Washoe County, about 950 couples had received secure digital marriage certificates to home computers and smartphones since the program debuted in April 2018.
Check out Washoe County's Idle Free Schools Program.
An in-house data warehouse built in 2012 gives educators in Nevada's large Washoe County School District quick access to the academic information they need to help each student succeed.
At the closing of the acquisition, the company's total Nevada lithium brine portfolio will increase to 20,790 acres (8,413 hectares), including 18,552 contiguous acres (7,508 hectares) in Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County, and 2,240 acres (907 hectares) in Washoe County.
At the closing of the transaction, the firm's total Nevada lithium brine portfolio will increase to 20,790 acres, including 18,552 contiguous acres (7,508 hectares) in Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County, and 2,240 acres (907 hectares) in Washoe County.
She moved to Reno, NV with her father in 1971 where she went through the Washoe Co.