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Pequots
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Pe·quot  (pkwt)
n. pl. Pequot or Pe·quots
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Connecticut, with present-day descendants in the same area. The Pequot and the Mohegan were the same people until the Mohegan broke away under Uncas in the early 17th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Pequot, dialectally related to Mohegan and Montauk.

Pequot adj.


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