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Esquimau

DEFINITIONS OF: Esquimau

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n a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

Synonyms:
Eskimo, Inuit
Type of:
American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

n the language spoken by the Eskimo

Synonyms:
Eskimo
Type of:
Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language
the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
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