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muskimoot
[< Algonk.: Cree]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants: mask imute, musk emoot, musk ymoot, etc.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fairly large bag made of netted babiche (def. 1), often used by hunters to carry game.
See: babiche(def. 1)
Quotations
1791
[English Bag Algonkin Maskimout Chippeway Muchcomat]
1803
[It was] loaded with his private baggage, cassetêtes, bags, kettles, and mashqueminctes.
1896
They could see that I had a little flour, a luxury the last pound of which had been consumed at that post months before, and I heard them speculating as to the probability of the various muskimoots containing tea and tobacco.
1909
The fancy bag in which you carry your calling cards and little friendly gifts up here is a "musky-moot"; the more formidable receptacle, which gives your friends warning that you may stay a day or two, is a "skin-ichi-mun."
1913
Especially noteworthy are the muskemoots . . . made of babiche.
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