Biloxi

From Biloxi [Term?] (“first people”).

Biloxi (plural Biloxi or Biloxis)

1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.

Biloxi

1. The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
2. A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
3. A village in southeastern Texas.

• “Biloxi”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.