Esquimau

[es-kuh-moh]

noun

plural

Esquimaux ,

plural

Esquimau .

1. a former spelling of Eskimo.

Esquimau

/ ˈɛskɪˌməʊ /

noun

1. a former spelling of Eskimo

Other Word Forms

• Esquimauan adjective

Example Sentences

In Lovecraft’s classic 1926 story The Call of Cthulhu, for example, the Elder Gods from outside space and time are remembered and venerated by “Esquimau diabolists and mongrel Louisianans” — by non-white people, in other words.

From The Verge

This, of course, did not suit the Esquimau at all.

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They look upon him as a kind of Esquimau.

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And it was not till both parties had recourse to the language of signs that Nansen was able to ascertain that they belonged to an Esquimau encampment to the north of Puisortok.

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Outside the ports no foreigner had ever been seen, and the first Englishman who visited São Paulo in 1809 was as much of a curiosity as an Esquimau would be to-day.

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