Esquimau
Americannoun
plural
Esquimaux,plural
Esquimaunoun
Other Word Forms
- Esquimauan adjective
Example Sentences
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But luck was with them, and one day, late in the afternoon, they heard a loud shout, and saw an Esquimau, standing on a hillock of ice, waving his arms at them.
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Nansen, indeed, tried to talk to them in Esquimau from a conversation book in that tongue he had with him, but it was perfectly useless.
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The Greenland ports were visited, where a 255 moderate amount of fur clothing and fifty Esquimau dogs were purchased.
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It resembled an Esquimau kayak, being low and narrow and decked all over, except for a narrow space in the middle.
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The word Samoyedes signifies "swamp-dwellers," and Esquimau means "eater of raw flesh."
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