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Esquimau

noun

(pl. esquimaux)

A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people'). Synonyms: Eskimo, Inuit.

The language spoken by the Eskimo. Synonym: Eskimo.

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"Esquimau" Quotes from Famous Books

... not say that Benjamin's mess, like his Scripture namesake's, is five times as large as that of any of the others, for this would imply either an economical distribution to the guests in general or heaping the poor young man's plate in a way that would spoil the appetite of an Esquimau, but you may be sure he fares well if anybody does; and I would have you understand that our Landlady knows what is what as well as who ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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Words linked to "Esquimau" : Eskimo-Aleut language, Red Indian, Indian, American Indian, Eskimo, Eskimo-Aleut