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Another word for wampum

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Noun

  1. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange

    See also:

    money

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Another word for wampum

Noun
  1. See also:

    money

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Wampum was employed most in New England, but it was common elsewhere.

  • Wampum was of two colours, dark purple and white, of cylindrical form, averaging a quarter of an inch in length, and about half that in diameter.

  • wampum, " white"; peag, " bead"), the shell-money of the North American Indians.

  • A strand of wampum, consisting of purple and white shell-beads or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colours, operated on the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string or figure, thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to the memory.

  • The term wampum or wampum-peage was apparently applied to the beads only when strung or woven together.

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