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cal⋅u⋅met

[kal-yuh-met, kal-yuh-met]
–noun
a long-stemmed, ornamented tobacco pipe used by North American Indians on ceremonial occasions, esp. in token of peace.
Also called peace pipe.


Origin:
1710–20; < F, orig. dial. (Norman, Picard): pipe stem, a by-form of F chalumeau chalumeau, with suffix altered to -et -et
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cal·u·met   (kāl'yə-mět', -mĭt, kāl'yə-mět')   
n.  A long-stemmed sacred or ceremonial tobacco pipe used by certain Native American peoples.

[Canadian French, from French dialectal, straw, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus, reed, from Greek kalamos.]
Cal·u·met   (kāl'yə-mět', -mĭt)   
A major industrial region of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan adjacent to Chicago.
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