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muktuk

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muk·tuk  (mktk)
n.
Whale blubber and skin, eaten as food.
[Inuit maktak.]
muktuk [ˈmʌktʌk]
n
(Cookery) Canadian the thin outer skin of the beluga, used as food
[from Inuktitut]
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But the reward is the whale meat that sustains the community through the brutal winter, and the skin and blubber, known as muktuk, saved as a delicacy for holidays.
Great white hope by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Effie claims that her people learned a long time ago that you did not eat muktuk (whale meat) and raw salmon berries.
Hunting & gathering by McAnally, Conley Stone / Whispering Wind
00), a story of one Irving and Muktuk, who are cheating each other at cards when polar friend Larry drops by to visit.
Houghton Mifflin by Children's Bookwatch
 
 
 
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