Esquimau (n.)

  1. a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh) but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people)

    [ Syn: eskimo , esquimau , inuit ]

  2. the language spoken by the Eskimo

    [ Syn: eskimo , esquimau ]

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