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Webster 1913 Edition
Calumet
Cal′u-met
,Noun.
A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Smoked the
As a signal to the nations.
calumet
, the Peace pipe,As a signal to the nations.
Lowgfellow.
☞ The calumet is used as a symbol of peace. To accept the calumet is to agree to terms of peace, and to refuse it is to reject them. The calumet of peace is used to seal or ratify contracts and alliances, and as an evidence to strangers that they are welcome.
Webster 1828 Edition
Calumet
CALUMET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
calumet
calumet
English
Noun
calumet (plural calumets)
- A clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.
- 2010, William Ingraham Kip, The Early Jesuit Missions in North America, page 283:
- When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance; those who have the calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, and now presenting themselves in front, but always with violent movements and extraordinary contortions.
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Synonyms
- peace pipe
- pipe of peace