Tehachapi

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proper noun

A city in Kern County, California, United States.
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Folsom, another well-known institution, opened in 1880. Between 1880 and 1933, when a facility for women was opened in Tehachapi, there was not a single new prison constructed. In 1952, the California Institution for Women opened and Tehachapi became a new prison for men. In all, between 1852 and 1955, nine prisons were constructed in California.
2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, page 12
Synonym of Kawaiisu (“a Uto-Aztecan language”).
Synonyms: Kawaiisu
A mountain range in California, United States, separating the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert, part of the Transverse Ranges.

proper nounSynonym of Kawaiisu (“a Uto-Aztecan language”).

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From Kawaiisu tihačipía, from tihaa (“hard”) + čipii- (“to climb”).

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