Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rain-in-the-face

1 sense of rain-in-the-face

Sense 1
Rain-in-the-Face -- (a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905))
       INSTANCE OF=> Indian chief, Indian chieftain -- (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
       INSTANCE OF=> Sioux, Siouan -- (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)