Esquimaux

See also: esquimaux

English

Noun

Esquimaux

  1. plural of Esquimau
    • Henry S. Salt (1886) A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 64: “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…”
    • 1910, Edwin Bateman Morris, The Arctic Architects: A Farce in Two Acts‎, Penn Publishing Company, OCLC 1039948884, page 30:
      Query and CAPTAIN put on Salvation Army caps . Mrs. S. puts on bonnet , and takes tambourine . CAPTAIN takes bass drum . ) 2 SAILOR . What am I ? QUERY . You had better be an Esquimaux dog . ( SAILOR Te begins to bark . ) Hist ! […]
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