wampum
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Synonyms
bread [slang], bucks, cabbage [slang], cash, change, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack [slang], kale [slang], legal tender, lolly [British], long green [slang], loot, lucre, money, moola (or moolah) [slang], needful, pelf, scratch [slang], shekels (also sheqels), tender
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The Iroquois documented the border on their wampum as a white line between two black ones. — Porter Fox, Outside Online, "Exploring America's Forgotten Border," 1 June 2018 Grinding corn and making No-Ke-Hick to eat, making wampum belts, studying pelts, tracking animals, and trying their hand at hunting games gave the kids a taste of what life might have been like for indigenous people hundreds of years ago. — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, "Learning About Native Americans At Pomfret Audubon Center," 24 Apr. 2018 Look at the aboriginal ways, from visual expression to the wampum belt, dances and oral storytelling. — Catherine Porter, New York Times, "A College Built for Canadian Settlers Envisions an Indigenous Future," 19 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wampum.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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