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medicine bags

medicine bags is the plural of medicine bag.

Meaning of medicine bag

Noun

medicine bag (plural medicine bags)

  1. A small pouch holding sacred items, worn by some indigenous peoples of the Americas.
    • I thought I might be unlucky for them, because the spirits took away my medicine bag.1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 35

Questions about medicine bags

What is medicine bags the plural of?
Medicine bags is the plural of medicine bag.

Words near medicine bags in the dictionary

  1. medicinally
  2. medicinals
  3. medicinary
  4. medicine
  5. medicine bag
  6. medicine bags
  7. medicine ball
  8. medicine balls
  9. Medicine Bow
  10. medicine cabinet
  11. medicine cabinets

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