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freebooter
noun
a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
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Freebooter may appear to be an English-language compound, but in fact, it鈥檚 Anglicized from the Dutch term vrijbuiter, a combination of vrij 鈥渇ree鈥� and buit 鈥渂ooty鈥濃�攁 compound word about treasure that is well suited for a pirate-related term. Buit and its English cognate booty derive from a Germanic source meaning 鈥渆xchange鈥� or 鈥渟haring of the spoils.鈥� Freebooter has one other relative in English, and an unexpected one: filibuster, in the historical sense of 鈥渦nauthorized military adventurer.鈥� While freebooter is a direct borrowing from Dutch, plus a spelling change, filibuster is a borrowing of Spanish filibustero, one of several words meaning 鈥減irate,鈥� via French from the same Dutch term, vrijbuiter. Freebooter entered English in the late 1500s.
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Buccaneers were adventurers who settled in Hispaniola, the island today divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They lived off the meat of wild cattle, which they preserved using an Indigenous smoking method called bouccan. In the mid-17th century they started to engage in piracy, just like the freebooters, a term deriving from the Dutch word vrijbuiter, 鈥渁 person who freely takes booty.鈥�
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Yore has a long history in the English language, first appearing as 驳别腻谤补 in Old English. While its origin is uncertain, a popular theory is that 驳别腻谤补 comes from the same source as the phonetically similar word year (Old English 驳脓补谤). If true, this means that yore and year derive from the Indo-European root 测脓谤- 鈥測ear,鈥� which is also the origin of Yiddish yor (as in Yahrzeit, the anniversary of a relative鈥檚 passing) and Ancient Greek 丑峁搑腻 鈥減art of a year, time of day,鈥� the source of horoscope. 贬峁搑腻 was borrowed into Latin as 丑艒谤补 鈥渉our,鈥� which is the source of the words for 鈥渉our,鈥� 鈥渘ow,鈥� 鈥渟till,鈥� and 鈥渁gain鈥� in many Romance languages.
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And the warden explained to me that when the architects designed the facility at Halden Prison, that it was really important to them to have the prison feel as though it was set in nature. And there’s historical precedent for this, even in our own country鈥攁sylums and hospitals in days of yore. It was seen to be really critical that people had fresh air and fresh water and a beautiful view.
Some beer companies are trying to create new, innovative ways to hold their cans together without trapping marine animals in any resulting refuse. Unlike plastic straws, however, viable alternatives aren’t always readily available. When the straw was first commercially produced, it was made of paper, making the move away from plastic simply a return to the straws of yore.
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wampum
noun
cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes.
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Wampum is a shortened form of wampumpeag, also spelled variously as wampampeak and wampompeage, and was borrowed from the Massachusett language, in which it roughly meant 鈥渨hite strings.鈥� Massachusett was one of the original Indigenous languages of New England, along with Narragansett, Mohegan, Mahican, Maliseet, and Abenaki, among others; of all these, only Abenaki and Maliseet survive today. However, a dialect of Massachusett, Wampanoag (also known as W么pan芒ak), is currently undergoing revitalization. These languages belong to the greater Algonquian family, which includes Cree and Ojibwe in Canada, Arapaho and Cheyenne in the Plains, and even Delaware and Powhatan along the East Coast. Wampum entered English in the early 1600s.
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Wampum is Indigenous, sacred and symbolic. Made from the purple and white shells of the quahog and whelk, the beads carry the history, culture and name of the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts, whose ancestors met the passengers of the Mayflower in 1620 and ensured their survival.
Cornplanter鈥檚 Pipe was gifted by Washington, between 1790 and 1794, most likely in 1792, during one of the Seneca delegation鈥檚 meetings in Philadelphia. It was a part of an elaborate exchange of medals, pipes, wampum and other tangible symbols of amity between the Haudenosaunee and the U.S. An integral part of Treaty making and diplomacy, gifts were vital signs of heroic labor to achieve and maintain peaceful relations.
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