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Eskimo

noun

NAmE//ˈɛskəmoʊ//

(pl. Eskimo or Eskimos) (sometimes offensive)

a member of a race of people from parts of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia. Some of these people prefer to use the name Inuit. compare Inuit

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