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sagamité|səˌgɑːmɪˈteɪ|
Also 8 shaggamitie, sagamitty, sagamite, 9 sagamity.
[a. F. sagamité (Sagard, 1632), repr. Cree Indian kisamitew, hot drink of any kind.]
a. A kind of gruel or porridge made from coarse hominy.
†b. (See quot. 1748.)
c1665P. E. Radisson Voyages (1885) 40 Then my father made a speech shewing many demonstrations of vallor, broak a kettle full of Cagamite with a hattchett. 1698Hennepin's Contn. New Discov. Amer. xxviii. 106 Sagamite, or Pap made of Indian corn. 1744J. de Champigny Present State Louisiana 22 They were employed in..making Sagamité and baking it. 1748H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's Bay 188 The broth of fish, which they call shaggamitie. 1763tr. Father Charlevoix' Acc. Voy. Canada 279 (Stanf.) The women come for several days and pour Sagamitty on the place. 1796Hist. Ned Evans II. 103 But they were all refreshed with as much Indian corn pounded and stewed with bear's grease as they could eat, which they call sagamity. 1807G. Heriot Trav. 586 Sagamité, pudding made of Indian corn. 1829H. Murray N. Amer. I. vii. 375 The dishes were Sagamity or boiled Indian Corn. 1880G. W. Cable Grandissimes 26 They sat down to bear's meat, sagamite and beans. 1916F. W. Waugh Iroquois Foods 91 Probably no corn or other food is referred to so frequently as hominy, or sagamité, as it was more familiarly known to the early French. 1931W. Cather Shadows on Rock iv. iii. 193 Cécile did not want much breakfast... She had sagamite and milk. 1940E. J. Pratt Coll. Poems (1958) ii. 256 It was the middle room that drew the natives, Day after day, to share the sagamite And raisins, and to see the marvels brought From France. 1963Beaver Autumn 17/2 Their [sc. the Hurons'] sagamité, a kind of corn porridge that drew excruciatingly long faces from the early Frenchmen, was, nevertheless, remarkably nourishing. |