| 单词 | wampum |
| 释义 | wampum (once / 7091 pages) n WORD FAMILY wampum: wampums USAGE EXAMPLESAt the high school and in Wampum Memorial Park, next to the stone doughboy and the monuments to Vietnam and the second world war. The Guardian(Sep 19, 2015) They point to the two-row wampum belt which they have sported since striking a treaty with the Dutch 400 years ago. Economist(Sep 17, 2015) While wampum’s value in European coins had been declining for decades, this was still a substantial sum. Slate(Apr 28, 2015) 1n small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency Syn|Hyper peag, wampumpeag beads, string of beads several beads threaded together on a string 2n informal terms for money Syn|Hyper boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar money the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender |
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