Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the east bank of the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan and closely related to the Munsee-speaking peoples. The Wappinger dispersed to other Native American groups after warfare with the Dutch in the mid-1600s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man of Wapping, London.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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She was the fifteen-year-old African American girl from Wappinger, New York found smeared with feces in a plastic bag.
Lynne White: The Evolution of Al Sharpton Lynne White 2011
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She was the fifteen-year-old African American girl from Wappinger, New York found smeared with feces in a plastic bag.
Lynne White: The Evolution of Al Sharpton Lynne White 2011
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She was the fifteen-year-old African American girl from Wappinger, New York found smeared with feces in a plastic bag.
Lynne White: The Evolution of Al Sharpton Lynne White 2011
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Earlier this month, in O'Mara v Town of Wappinger, Docket Nos. 06-0078-cv (L), 06-1323-cv (CON), the Second Circuit certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals:
Federal Decisions 2008
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Today, in O'Mara v. Town of Wappinger, Docket Nos. 06-0078-cv (L), 06-1323-cv (CON), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals:
NY Court of Appeals 2007
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Earlier this month, in O'Mara v Town of Wappinger, Docket Nos. 06-0078-cv (L), 06-1323-cv (CON), the Second Circuit certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals:
NY Court of Appeals 2007
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In 1987, Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl from Wappinger Falls, New York, went missing for four days and was found covered in dog feces and scrawled racial slurs.
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She came home in the evening into her own community of Wappinger Falls, New York, got off a bus, was seized by a group of men, one of whom was wearing a badge and indicated he was the police, was taken to a wooded area and was raped and otherwise brutalized over a four-day period and left for dead in this garbage bag.
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Wappinger Falls preserves the name of the Indian tribe that once held sway over these uplands.
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Beyond Fishkill the Post Road traverses a high plateau whose fertile soil is well cultivated, a country beautiful after its kind, but to one fresh from the grandeur of the Highlands the stretch of six miles to Wappinger Falls seems but a tame affair, with only one of the old mile-stones left to tell the tale of long ago.
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