Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.
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Examples for "wampum"
Examples for "wampum"
1Among the Indians, strings of wampum paid for goods, marriage proposals, tribute.
2Marie, in the following words, accompanying them with a string of wampum:-
3They appealed to this treaty, and to the evidence of the wampum-belts.
4This wampum was given to me that I might remain in peace.
5Got paid in wampum once, and one time I took a horse.
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