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Definition of Matoaka
1. Noun. A Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matoaka
Literary usage of Matoaka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1915)
"He was a man of extensive literary attainments, and one of his most interesting
productions was "Pocahontas, alias matoaka, and her Descendants. ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"Portrait of matoaka al's Rebecca Fill« ... of Richmond (but not of matoaka), Si.
Put- tick's, March, 1862, ... Richmond and matoaka an very rarely ! ..."
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