calumet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calumet
First recorded in 1710–20; from French, originally dialect (Norman, Picard): “pipe stem,” a by-form of French chalumeau “reed flute, stem of a reed,” with suffix altered to -et; see origin at chalumeau, -et
Example Sentences
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One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I do not smoke," added Big Chief Nikita, "but really, I would be happy to light the calumet together with the leaders of all powers."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have buried the hatchet; I am twisting an allumette out of one of you now, and relighting my calumet.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
The calumet was smoked, the hatchet was buried, and everlasting friendship was sworn between the old inhabitants and the new.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
He carried in his hand a calumet, ornamented with feathers.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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