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mohican [məʊˈhiːkən] n 1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured 2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a person wearing such a hairstyle Mohican [ˈməʊɪkən məʊˈhiːkən], Mahican [məˈhiːkən] n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -cans, -can a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it 2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent. The idea of the story had suggested itself to him, we are told, before he had finished its immediate forerunner, "The Last of the Mohicans. Of the Lenni Lenape, or as they were called by the whites, from the circumstances of their holding their great council-fire on the banks of that river, the Delaware nation, the principal tribes, besides that which bore the generic name, were the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes. |
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