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tenas-man
[< Chinook Jargon tenas little + E man]
Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a youth; boy.
Quotations
1870
In the crowd behind are a few dusky natives in Boston clothing, while there trip about a few Tenass-men, some with the remains of an old coat and beaver hat, and some [in] almost naked savagedom.
1913
August 10, having engaged three Indians and a "tenas man" to help up the . . . rapids, we started for Lake Trembleur.