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Esquimaux
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esquimaux
English
Noun
en noun form
en Esquimau
en Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth. 1873 Charles Tomlinson 122 Charles Tomlinson_(scientist) https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Winter_in_the_Arctic_Regions_and_Summer/PoabVK1sOs4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA122 III 1327844961 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge London https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Winter_in_the_Arctic_Regions_and_Summer/PoabVK1sOs4C?hl=en&gbpv=0
en A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays The Vegetarian Society Manchester Henry Stephens Salt 25606392M 1886 64 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AHenry_Stephens_Salt_-_A_Plea_for_Vegetarianism_and_Other_Essays.pdf/66 I may here remark in passing that Sir Henry Thompson’s reference to the Esquimaux, as an instance of a people to whom a vegetarian diet would be impossible, is not of much practical value to English readers in the elucidation of this food question;
French
Noun
fr noun form
fr Esquimau