sagamore
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sagamore
1605–15, < Eastern Abenaki sὰkəmα < Proto-Algonquian *sa˙kima˙wa; cf. sachem
Example Sentences
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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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
"The sagamore should have kept his first wife himself."
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
Samoset, sagamore of Pemaquid, 96, 264; at Plymouth, 292, 293.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
The sagamore dies, and who will tell his tribe?
From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary
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 Adams, John Turvill
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