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squawdom

squawdom noun: the world or sphere of squaws.

Noun

squawdom (uncountable)

  1. The world or sphere of squaws.
    • […] we found she wanted to marry a white man, who would be rich enough to support her in the style to which she has been accustomed, for she alone, of all her father's family, is relieved from the curse of squawdom — hard labor.1877, William Wallace Beach, The Indian Miscellany, page 389
    • […] in his treatment of Native American women, what informed his portrait of Teal Eye, The Big Sky's exception to squawdom?2001, William E. Farr, William W. Bevis, Fifty Years After The Big Sky, page 137

Origin of squawdom

From squaw + -dom.

Questions about squawdom

What does squawdom mean?
Squawdom means the world or sphere of squaws.
What part of speech is squawdom?
Squawdom is a noun.

Words near squawdom in the dictionary

  1. squaw winters
  2. squawberries
  3. squawberry
  4. squawbush
  5. squawbushes
  6. squawdom
  7. squawfish
  8. squawfishes
  9. squawk
  10. squawk book
  11. squawk books

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