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esquimau
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun esquimau has 2 senses
- esquimau(n = noun.person) eskimo, inuit - 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'); Array is a kind of american indian, indian, red indian
- esquimau(n = noun.communication) eskimo - the language spoken by the Eskimo; Array is a kind of eskimo-aleut, eskimo-aleut language
CIDE DICTIONARY
esquimau, n. [F.].
Same as Eskimo. [1913 Webster]
"It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also."
[1913 Webster]
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