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assean
[< Algonk.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:arsean, arsian, azion
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a breechclout.
Quotations
1743
a Cloth for the private parts Ar-se-an.
1801
[He wears] a strip of cloth or leather, called assian, about a foot wide, and five feet long, whose ends are drawn inwards and hang down behind and before, over a belt tied round the waist for that purpose.
1931
My man dressed himself in the habit of a voyageur, that is, a short shirt, a red woolen cap, a pair of deerskin leggings which reached from the ankles a little above the knees, and are held up by a string secured to a belt about the waist, the azion . . . of the Indians, and a pair of deerskin moccasins without stockings on the feet.