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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in Indian parlance, a lunar month.
Quotations
1668
I can say that we wth our comrades, who weare about 60, killed in the space of 2 moons and a halfe, a thousand moons we wanted not bear's grease to annoint ourselves, to runne the better.
1743
When will she arrive [? . . .] in one month or moon I believe.
1856
". . . Redfeather has been following in the track of his white friends. He has not seen his nation for many moons."
1964
"My tribe . . .after work of ten moons now offers this humble symbol. . . ."