squaw

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Narragansett Indian.) An Indian woman. Mr. Duponceau, after giving a list of the languages and forms in which this word occurs, observes: "On voit que la famille de cc mot s'étend depuis les Knisténaux en Canada, et les Skoffies et Montagnards d'Acadie, jusqu'aux Nanticokes sur les confins de la Virginie."--Mém. sur les Langues d'Amérique du Nord, p. 333.

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