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Esquimau

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Es·qui·mau  (sk-m)
n. pl. Esquimau or Es·qui·maux (-mz)
An Eskimo.
[French, sing. of Esquimaux, Eskimo; see Eskimo.]
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Noun1.EsquimauEsquimau - 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')
Eskimo, Inuit
American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
2.Esquimau - the language spoken by the Eskimo
Eskimo
Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language - the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut


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I know an Esquimau in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati for his neckties, and I saw a goatherder in Uruguay who won a prize in a Battle Creek breakfast food puzzle competition.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
This done, we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down-East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an ingenious little bit of fancy work, either Esquimau, Kickapoo, or Hottentot.
The Business Man by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.
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