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/ˌæpəlˈeɪtʃən/ /ˌæpəlˈeɪʃən/ /ˌæpəlˈætʃən/ Listen

Appalachian

adjective

In or relating to Appalachia.

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"Appalachian" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was one of the forty vassal chiefs of the great Outina, lord of all the Thimagoas, whose warriors wore armor of gold and silver plate. He told them, too, of Potanou, his enemy, "a man cruell in warre;" and of the two kings of the distant Appalachian Mountains,—Onatheaqua and Houstaqua, "great lords and abounding in riches." While thus, with earnest pantomime and broken words, the chief discoursed with his guests, Vasseur, intent and eager, strove to follow his meaning; and no sooner did he hear of these Appalachian treasures than he promised ...

— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... appellation, from one of the grand and eternal features of our country; from that noble chain of mountains which formed its back-bone, and ran through the "old confederacy," when it first declared our national independence. I allude to the Appalachian or Alleghany mountains. We might do this without any very inconvenient change in our present titles. We might still use the phrase, "The United States," substituting Appalachia, or Alleghania, (I should prefer the latter,) in place of America. The title of Appalachian, or Alleghanian, would still ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

Words linked to "Appalachian" : Appalachian Mountains, American, Appalachia