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Nar⋅ra⋅gan⋅sett

  [nar-uh-gan-sit]
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–noun, plural -setts, (especially collectively) -sett.
1. a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Narragansett Indians.
3. a town in S Rhode Island: includes a resort (Narragansett Pier). 12,088.
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Narragansett 
1622, from Algonquian Naiaganset "people of the small point of land."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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