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Definition of Kinnikinnick
1. Noun. A mixture of dried leaves, bark, and sometimes tobacco, smoked by some Native Americans ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kinnikinnick
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kinnikinnick
Literary usage of Kinnikinnick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson (1878)
"How shall kinnikinnick be told to them who know it not? To a New Englander it
might be ... The Indians call it kinnikinnick, and smoke it in their pipes. ..."
2. English Composition by Stratton Duluth Brooks (1912)
"How shall kinnikinnick be told to them who know it not ? To a New Englander it
might be said that a whortleberry bush changed its mind one day and decided ..."
3. Composition-rhetoric by Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard (1905)
"How shall kinnikinnick be told to them who know it not ? To a New Englander it
might be ... The Indians call it kinnikinnick, and smoke it in their pipes. ..."
4. Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance by Warren Upham (1920)
"The Algonquian word, kinnikinnick, for such addition to the tobacco, included
also the leaves of the bearberry and leaves of sumach, gathered when they turn ..."
5. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society by Minnesota Historical Society (1920)
"Dr. CC Parry stated that the bark of the former species, wherever it is found,
is preferred for use as kinnikinnick; and that the bark of the latter is ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"kinnikinnick. An Indian word for a preparation of tobacco, sumac- leaves, ...
The preparation of kinnikinnick varies in different localities and with ..."
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