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Esquimau

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Noun

1. eskimo, esquimau, inuit

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')

2. eskimo, esquimau

the language spoken by the Eskimo

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Esquimau

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noun plural -maus or -mauadjective
a former spelling of Eskimo

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Esquimau

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nounWord forms: plural ˈEsquiˌmaux (ˈɛskəˌmoʊ ; esˈkəmōˌ; ˈɛskəˌmoʊz ; esˈkəmōzˌ) or ˈEsquiˌmau
Archaic
Eskimo

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Esquimau

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n. pl. Esquimau or Es·qui·maux (-mōz)
An Eskimo.

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