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outfit doctors

outfit doctors is the plural of outfit doctor.

Meaning of outfit doctor

Noun

outfit doctor (plural outfit doctors)

  1. A doctor (shaman) in certain cultures who was a doctor by virtue of their magical paraphernalia and the techniques they learned, rather than from supernatural experiences such as dreams and visions.
    • An outfit doctor was initiated by the relative whose place he was to take and whose outfit he inherited.1926, Edwin M. Loeb, “Pomo Folkways”, in University of California Publications in Anthropology, Archaeology & Ethnology, volume 19, number 2, page 326

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What is outfit doctors the plural of?
Outfit doctors is the plural of outfit doctor.

Words near outfit doctors in the dictionary

  1. outfished
  2. outfishes
  3. outfishing
  4. outfit
  5. outfit doctor
  6. outfit doctors
  7. outfits
  8. outfitted
  9. outfitter
  10. outfitters
  11. outfitting

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