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Meanings of wampum in English
Spanish
wampum Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.
Usage of wampum in English
1
Among the Indians, strings of wampum paid for goods, marriage proposals, tribute.
2
Marie, in the following words, accompanying them with a string of wampum:-
3
They appealed to this treaty, and to the evidence of the wampum-belts.
4
This wampum was given to me that I might remain in peace.
5
Got paid in wampum once, and one time I took a horse.
6
And it was probably a fairly attractive proposition, too, involving green wampum.
7
The old man had many rare furs and valued strings of wampum.
8
Forty rolls of wampum and twenty pounds of powder were also taken.
9
Upon her head she wore a crown of black and white wampum.
10
He once had a wampum cap which was fastened to his scalp.
11
It had been a while since he'd looked at the wampum belt.
12
Their belts were heavy with wampum, their hearts were heavy with hate.
13
In the meantime I will wrap it in a badge of wampum!
14
I came back to his bedside and drew out the wampum belt.
15
For four hundred years the wampum belts have been sacred among the Iroquois.
16
She also hangs wampum or bits of abalone shell on the finest ones.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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