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Huron|ˈhjʊərən|
Also 7 Hiroon.
[Fr., f. earlier hure, rough hair of the head.]
A confederation of five Iroquoian peoples formerly inhabiting a region adjacent to Lake Huron; a member of one of these peoples; also their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1658F. Gorges in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. (1847) II. 67 The Hiroons, who being neuters are friends both to the one [sc. the Iroquois] and the other [sc. the French]. 1756A. Butler Lives Saints II. 650 The saint wrote earnestly to the general of the Society, desiring to be employed on a mission to the barbarous Hurons and Iroquois in Canada. 1782‘J. H. St. John de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer (1783) iv. 90 The Nattic, like the Huron, in the north-western parts of this continent, must have been the most prevailing one [sc. language] in this region. 1786Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. II. i. 125 The Huron, or Wyandot language having no affinity to the Shawanese, Delawares, and other nations. 1789[see Five Nations]. 1823J. S. Mill Autobiogr. (1924) 267 No one, I apprehend, would insult the understanding of this Society..by maintaining..that the Hurons and the Iroquois are the happiest and the most enlightened of mankind. 1832‘M. Doyle’ Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada (ed. 2) 17 The soil in the Huron territory is a rich sandy loam. 1845[see buckle n. 1 e]. 1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. ix. 291 The Hurons of North America believe that the souls of the departed turn into turtle-doves. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Iroquoian family..includes, among others, the Huron (or Wyandot) language. 1959Listener 9 July 75/2 He [sc. the American writer] can always feel himself to be a noble savage, a Huron, confronted by the degenerate, corrupt, or over-sophisticated stock from which he sprang. 1973Ibid. 25 Oct. 549/1 The Jesuits..negotiated with the Hurons and Iroquois, as they treated with the daimyos. |