Esquimaux

See also: esquimaux

English

Esquimaux

plural of Esquimau
- 1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions‎^[1], London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:
  The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.
- 1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, Manchester: The Vegetarian Society, →OL, page 64:
  I may here remark in passing that Sir Henry Thompson’s reference to the Esquimaux, as an instance of a people to whom a vegetarian diet would be impossible, is not of much practical value to English readers in the elucidation of this food question; […]

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