- present tense form of arch (3rd person singular).
arches
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He also collected dozens of diddley bows, the one-stringed instrument of West African origin heard in old Southern blues recordings, handmade slingshots and toy plows, antique kimonos and Plains Indian rawhide pouches called parfleches.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2012
In the procession of the fourth day, the parfleches are carried behind the medicine woman by her attendants.
From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark
The parfleches containing tongues are kept in the medicine woman's tipi where they are "prayed and sung over" during the first and second days of the program.
From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark
Presently, a sharp, rending noise told him that the grizzly had attacked either a tepee, or one of the parfleches in it.
From Dusty Star by Baker, Olaf
The number of tongues required is uncertain, some informants claiming that there should be an even hundred, others, that four to five full parfleches was the standard.
From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark
