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Noun: Esquimau  'e-sku,mow
  1. The language spoken by the Eskimo
    - Eskimo, Eskimo language, Esquimau language
     
  2. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people')
    - Eskimo, Inuit, Innuit

Type of: American Indian, Amerindian, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Native American, Red Indian [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Esquimau