Esquimau Definition & Meaning
esquimau
- noun
- 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')
- the language spoken by the Eskimo
Words that rhyme with esquimau
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