Apacheness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being Apache. uncountable

    "Well, it's certainly a desert full of ghosts, even to the names of the landforms, like the Chisos themselves, a word suggesting danger with a hint of Apacheness about it."

Example

More examples

"Well, it's certainly a desert full of ghosts, even to the names of the landforms, like the Chisos themselves, a word suggesting danger with a hint of Apacheness about it."

Etymology

From Apache + -ness.

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