sagamore
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sagamore
1605–15, < Eastern Abenaki sὰkəmα < Proto-Algonquian *sa˙kima˙wa; cf. sachem
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The white sagamore had never before come in full uniform to a private talk, and it was necessary to smoke half an hour before a word could be said.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
He told them he was sagamore of Morattigon, distant from Plymouth "a daye's sayle with a great wind, and five dayes by land."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Only the sagamore was strictly confined, being ironed and placed in the same dungeon which Joy had occupied.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
"Does the sagamore think he is an object of veneration, that I should kiss him?"
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Sachem, sā′chem, n. a chief of a North American Indian tribe, a sagamore: one of the Tammany leaders.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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