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squaw [skwɔː] n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) Offensive a North American Indian woman 2. Slang, usually facetious a woman or wife [of Algonquian origin; compare Natick squa female creature] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Hunt consented to take his squaw and two children on board also. The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming. , one of America's foremost captains of industry and the greatest man in California, be in love with a--a--the word stuck in my throat; yet by my own American standards Ajor could be nothing else; at home, for all her beauty, for all her delicately tinted skin, little Ajor by her apparel, by the habits and customs and manners of her people, by her life, would have been classed a squaw. |
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