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wampum

/wom-puhm, wawm-/US // ˈwɒm pəm, ˈwɔm- //UK // (ˈwɒmpəm) //

棉布,棉币,棉纱,棉絮

Related Words

necklace项链,项圈rosary念珠,念珠会,数珠,念经choker吊坠,吊环,颈圈,吊坠式pendant垂饰,挂件,下垂物,垂体refund退款,退费,退税,退款金额buck龅牙,降压,降压药,牡蛎supply供应,提供,补给,供应品payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项note备注,注,注意,说明currency货币security安全,安全性,安全问题,保安reserve储备,预留,保留,储备金investment投资,投入,投入资金stock股票,库存,股价,股市chaplet护身符,小册子,礼拜堂,礼拜天pearls珍珠,珍珠类,珍贵的珍珠necklet颈圈,颈链,颈环,项圈wherewithal本钱,财源,资金来源,资源coin钱币,硬币,币,金币pledge认捐,承诺,誓约,誓言

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbeads
Synonyms
choker吊坠,吊环,颈圈,吊坠式necklace项链,项圈pendant垂饰,挂件,下垂物,垂体rosary念珠,念珠会,数珠,念经chaplet护身符,小册子,礼拜堂,礼拜天necklet颈圈,颈链,颈环,项圈pearls珍珠,珍珠类,珍贵的珍珠
as incash
Synonyms
buck龅牙,降压,降压药,牡蛎currency货币investment投资,投入,投入资金note备注,注,注意,说明payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项refund退款,退费,退税,退款金额reserve储备,预留,保留,储备金security安全,安全性,安全问题,保安stock股票,库存,股价,股市supply供应,提供,补给,供应品banknote纸币,钞票,票据,货币bread面包bullion金银,金条,金块,金币cabbage高丽菜,白菜,卷心菜,甘蓝菜coin钱币,硬币,币,金币coinage硬币,钱币,币种,币值dinero财富,钞票,钱,奖金dough面团,生面团,面皮,糕饼funds资金,资金来源,资金方面,资金问题lot很多,地段,大量,批量pledge认捐,承诺,誓约,誓言principal主要的,主要内容,主要负责人,主要remuneration酬金,报酬,薪酬,酬金方面resources资源,资源方面,资源方面的riches财富,财物,财利,财源savings储蓄,积蓄,存款,节约scratch划伤,挠痒痒,刮擦,刮伤treasure宝藏,宝物,宝,宝库wherewithal本钱,财源,资金来源,资源chicken feed鸡饲料,鸡肉饲料,鸡的饲料,养鸡场green stuff绿色的东西,绿色产品,绿色的材料,绿色环保的东西legal tender法定货币,合法货币,合法的货币,法定的货币mazumah马祖玛,马祖马,马祖姆,马祖明ready assets准备好的资产,准备就绪的资产,准备资产,准备的资产

Examples

  • 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.

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