nanook
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of nanook
from Inuktitut nanug
Example Sentences
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But the movie, like Robert J. Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” and “Man of Aran,” also clearly involves a degree of staging.
From New York Times
The references range from Robert Flaherty’s genre-defining “Nanook of the North” to a nostalgia-tinged rock doc to the contemporary quick-cut, split-screen, graphics-happy, globe-trotting hipster journalism purveyed by Vice.
From Los Angeles Times
Isaac had done a collection inspired by “Nanook of the North,” only to find, right before the presentation, that another designer had done the same thing?
From New York Times
Less than 24 hours after the video went viral, "Nanook," as the dog was newly named, had a new family.
From Fox News
That debate goes as far back as 1922, when Robert Flaherty released the silent film “Nanook of the North,” a portrait of an Inuk family in the Canadian Arctic that contained staged scenes of the protagonist hunting and interacting with a White fur trader.
From Washington Post
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