wampum 的定义
- Also called peag, seawan, sewan . cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, especially such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or dark-purple varieties.
- Informal. money.
wampum 近义词
等同于 beads
等同于 cash
更多wampum例句
- America with lakes of lucre, waves of wampum, a Superstorm Sandy of simoleons, a Hurricane Katrina of cash.
- Take blankets and beads to the Wyandots and watch them hang up white wampum.
- But wampum, like the race for whom it was made, was unable to hold its ground against the advancing civilization.
- The beads found in them are very like those which the barbarous Indians called wampum and used as money.
- He took off his head-dress and bracelets, both being of yellow leather edged with wampum, and presented them to Cartier.
- As I embarked to return, he put the white wampum around my neck—a pledge of truth, my sweetheart, my Algonquin.