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Pocahontas

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Po·ca·hon·tas  (pk-hnts) 1595?-1617.
Powhatan princess who befriended the English colonists at Jamestown and is said to have saved Capt. John Smith from execution by her people.
Pocahontas [ˌpɒkəˈhɒntəs]
n
(Biographies / Pocahontas (?1595-1617) F, American Indian, MISC: wife of colonist) original name Matoaka; married name Rebecca Rolfe. ?1595-1617, American Indian, who allegedly saved the colonist Captain John Smith from being killed
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Noun1.PocahontasPocahontas - a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)
Matoaka, Rebecca Rolfe


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Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
My great-great-great-gran'father en yo' great-great-great-great-gran'father was Ole Cap'n John Smith, de highest blood dat Ole Virginny ever turned out, en his great-great-gran'mother, or somers along back dah, was Pocahontas de Injun queen, en her husbun' was a nigger king outen Africa-- en yit here you is, a slinkin' outen a duel en disgracin' our whole line like a ornery lowdown hound
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
"I don't want them to think that we dress like savages," she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
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