Lexicographical Neighbors of Klootch
Literary usage of Klootch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peerless Alaska, Our Cache Near the Pole by Charles Hallock, George G. Cantwell (1908)
"... the temperature scarcely varying ten degrees from sun to sun and month to
month, the Siwash locks his winter cabin and takes his " klootch " and fishing ..."
2. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America by Frederick Whymper (1868)
"To one of the children I gave a sixpence, explaining in doubtful Chinook that
her Majesty, as thereon portrayed, was Victoria, klootch- man tyli.ee copa ..."
3. Totem Tales: Indian Stories Indian Told, Gathered in the Pacific Northwest by Walter Shelley Phillips (1896)
"Louder it sounded and many voices joined in, and then the klootch-men, who do
not dance, wrapped their bark skirts close around them, and sat down to beat ..."
4. On Canada's Frontier: Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure, and of the by Julian Ralph, Frederic Remington (1892)
"... do not bother about their tribal divisions, but use the old traders' Chinook
terms, and call every male a " siwash " and every woman a " klootch- man. ..."
5. Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of by Charles F. Orvis, A. Nelson Cheney (1886)
"... who, with his crouching klootch- man and papoose, gazed upon our ship, guns,
and us with an expression that showed them to be unfamiliar eights. ..."
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