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noun
- Originally a tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.
- A local political leader in Latin America.
- Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae.
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| calumet |
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noun
- a clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace
- 1922: THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself. " James Joyce, Ulysses
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| cannibal |
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noun
- An organism which eats others of its own species.
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| cannibalism |
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noun
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
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| chieftain |
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noun
- A leader of a clan or tribe.
- A leader of a group, e.g. a robbers' chieftain.
- (capitalized) The name of a British military tank.
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| Chiricahua |
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proper noun
- A Native American tribe.
- The language these people speak.
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| concubine |
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noun
- A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
- A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures.
- Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically
- A woman attached to a man solely for reproduction, and who cares for the resulting children without any romantic relationship
- (esp. formerly in Muslim societies) a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan, for sexual purposes. <ref>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</ref>
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| conjurer |
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noun
- One who conjures, a magician.
- 1594 His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a ; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand. " Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4.
- One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
- 1893 The man is by trade a and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. " Arthur Conan Doyle, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=275137210&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Adventure+of+the+Crooked+Man,+1893&query=conjurer&id=DoyCroo "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
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| coup |
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noun - A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act; a triumph.
- A coup d'état.
- By extension, a takeover of one group by another.
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| cousin |
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noun
- The son or daughter of a person"s uncle or aunt
- Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, etc.
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| cultural anthropology |
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noun
- One of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology.
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