单词 | medal chief |
释义 | > as lemmasmedal chief medal chief n. North American History a North American Indian chief who received a medal from the British colonial or U.S. authorities. ΚΠ 1772 D. Taitt Let. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 518 To the Great and Small medal chiefs. a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 27 He is one of the great medal chiefs. 1856 C. Lanman Adventures Wilds U.S. II. 181 His kind protector—who was a medal-chief, lived in a log cabin, and worked twenty negroes. 1876 D. G. Brinton Myths of New World (ed. 2) 260 Esau Hajo, great medal chief and speaker for the Creek nation. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 57 493 Emistisiguo, the acknowledged ‘mouth’ of the nation, was not a party to the transaction, nor were other great medal chiefs. < as lemmas |
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