calumet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clay tobacco pipe used by Native Americans, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.
    — THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.

词形变化

calumets plural

词源

From a Norman variant of Old French chalumeau (imported to Canada with Norman colonists), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos).
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