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Passamaquoddy

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Pas·sa·ma·quod·dy  (ps-m-kwd)
n. pl. Passamaquoddy or Pas·sa·ma·quod·dies
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Maine and New Brunswick along the Bay of Fundy, with present-day descendants in eastern Maine. The Passamaquoddy helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, dialectally related to Malecite.
[Of Micmac origin.]
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