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Definition of Squaw
1. Noun. An American Indian woman.
Definition of Squaw
1. n. A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
Definition of Squaw
1. Noun. (pejorative) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squaw
1. an American Indian woman [n -S]
Medical Definition of Squaw
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Squaw
Literary usage of Squaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belden, the White Chief: Or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains by George Pfauts Belden (1875)
"I HAD often observed in the teepee of a good-natured old squaw, whom I used to
visit almost every day, a warrior, whose hair was silvery white, ..."
2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"ON THE FRONTIER — TRAPPERS AND squaw TRADING POSTS AND INDIAN AGENTS. On the
Frontier — The Border Line — The Early Trappers — Playing the Wild Rover ..."
3. People from the Other World by Henry Steel Olcott (1875)
"I filled my own pipe and handed it to Horatio, who lighted it, and gave it to
the squaw ; and then we had the astonishing spectacle of a materialized spirit ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"Instead, however, of marrying only one squaw, like Murphy, he married five, ...
For a white man to marry and live with a squaw as his wife amounted to an ..."
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