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Definition of Powwowed
1. powwow [v] - See also: powwow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Powwowed
Literary usage of Powwowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"when I assert that whole families, especially during the ravages of epidemics,
are frequently and literally drummed, rattled, stank, and powwowed out of ..."
2. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"... and I had no doubt that their anxiety to have the boy duly powwowed, would
urge forward our sledges and bring us early to the healing waters. ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"Brent (a Papist) coming thither on a visit, and seeing his little prisoner thus
languishing, said, "Perhaps he is powwowed" (ie bewitched), and that he had ..."
4. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1909)
"... under a marquee one hundred feet in length, powwowed with eighty Indians of
the Caughnawaga, Schaghticoke, and Housatonic tribes for almost a week. ..."
5. The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1851)
"All the Indians went a hunting, but could get nothing; divers days they powwowed,
and yet got nothing; then they desired the English to pray, and confessed ..."
6. Potter's American Monthly (1878)
"... and twisting their bodies into grotesque shapes, as they danced around a large
fire, while their conjurers powwowed and played juggling ..."
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