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Noun: Esquimau  'e-sku`mow
  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')
    - Eskimo, Inuit, Innuit
     
  2. The language spoken by the Eskimo
    - Eskimo

Type of: American Indian, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Indian, Red Indian

Encyclopedia: Esquimau