Pequot

American  

[pee-kwot] / ˈpi kwɒt /

noun

PLURAL

Pequots

PLURAL

Pequot

1. a member of a powerful tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut that was essentially destroyed in the Pequot War.

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Pequot British  

/ ˈpiːkwɒt /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in S New England

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Etymology

Origin of Pequot

First recorded in 1625–35, from Narragansett ( English spelling) Pequttôog (plural), and the cognate in other SE New England languages, e.g., ( Dutch spelling) Pequat(s),Pequatoo(s), probably literally, “people of the shoals”

Example Sentences

In 1637, colonial soldiers had surrounded a major Pequot settlement as Puritan leader John Mason “set fire to the village, which, owing to the strong wind blowing, was soon ablaze,” according to James Truslow Adams’ 1921 Pulitzer-winning “The Founding of New England”:

From Salon

Adding irony to that irony, when Stefanik was a Harvard undergraduate from 2002 to 2006, she lived in the college's Winthrop House, named for John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who oversaw its public celebration of Puritans' genocidal assaults on the indigenous Pequot people.

From Salon

Ministers of Christ saluted one another “in the Lord Jesus,” some of them profiting directly from selling surviving Pequot boys and girls into slavery.

From Salon

To get the business started, Wilcox raised less than $5 million from friends and family, including the late Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, the late Arthur Samberg, founder of Pequot Capital Management and JetBlue’s Neeleman.

From Seattle Times

Didn’t the Puritans burn the village of the Pequot people?

From Salon