cigar store Indians
cigar store Indians is the plural of cigar store Indian.
Meaning of cigar store Indian
Noun
cigar store Indian (plural cigar store Indians)
- A sculpture, typically wooden and painted, of a Native American Indian, of the sort prominently used in tobacco stores.
- ... Fenimore Cooper's Indian is a fraud. ... The cigar-store red man and the statuesque Pocahontas of the "vuelta abajo" trade as they are paraded in literature and thus pervert the public conceptions of our Indians, THEY—I want to destroy first if possible.1888, Adolph F. Bandelier, “Letter to Thomas Janvier”, in Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley, Elizabeth M. Lange, editors, The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier, 1889-1892, volume 4...
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- What is cigar store Indians the plural of?
- Cigar store Indians is the plural of cigar store Indian.
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