Osage

Osage
I. noun (plural Osages or Osage) Etymology: French, probably from an Algonquian language, from Osage wažáže, a self-designation Date: 1698 1. a member of an American Indian people originally of Missouri 2. the Siouan language of the Osage people II. geographical name river E Kansas & Missouri flowing E into Missouri River; now partly submerged in Lake of the Ozarks

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