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Massachuset

Variant of Massachusett

noun

  1. pl. Massachusetts or Massachusett a member of a North American Indian people that lived around Massachusetts Bay
  2. the Algonquian language of this people and certain adjacent peoples, which is now extinct
Also sp. Massachuset

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