单词 | peace belt |
释义 | > as lemmaspeace belt peace belt n. North American (now historical) a belt of wampum used by North American Indians as a sign of peace. ΚΠ 1758 in New Jersey Archives (1898) XX. 297 Peace was solemnly ratified by a large peace belt. 1897 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 26 237 Chief Mandorong could only tell me that it was a peace-belt, representing an important treaty or alliance of ancient times. 1926 C. Mair Masterwks. Canad. Authors XIV. 207 The colour of the..peace belt [was white]. 1989 A. S. Goodstein From Frontier to City ii. 26 In 1792 he served as Governor Blount's emissary to the friendly Chickasaw and to the more hostile Choctaw, who tore up the peace belt he offered. < as lemmas |
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