Pequots

Variant of Pequot

noun

  1. pl. Pequots or Pequot a member of a North American Indian people dominant in E Connecticut until conquered in 1637
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Origin: Narragansett, ? lit., people of the shoal

adjective

of the Pequots or their language or culture
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