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trade jargon
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a relatively simple trade language used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast in their dealings with whites and Indians of other tribes, based on the language of the Chinook Indians; words from Nootka, Salish, French, English, and other languages were adapted to the jargon.
See: Chinook Jargon
Quotations
1896
The Indians conversed with the Eskimos in the trade jargon of the coast, which included even Kanaka words in its vocabulary.