DCHP-3

babine

[< Cdn F babine protruding lip]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a labret for the lower lip, formerly used by the Babines and certain other Indian tribes of northern British Columbia.

Quotations

1834
Crowds of Kittistzoo about the gate & amongst them some good looking women malgré the "babine."
1910
They [labrets] had for effect to considerably distend the lower lip, giving it a shocking prominence, which recalled that of the larger mammals, such as the moose, which was called babine by the French Canadians.