Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the two Algonquian languages of the Delaware peoples, spoken in northern New Jersey, downstate New York, and western Long Island.
- n. A member of the Munsee-speaking branch of the Delaware people.
Wiktionary
- n. An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Delaware languages, spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.
Examples
“This plant at Kildare and Munsee, was known as Border Cities Industires, and was a subsidiary of G.M. through the end of WWII.”
“Officials with the federal bureau and a spokeswoman for the Stockbridge-Munsee didn ' t respond to calls requesting comment.”
“Mr. Paterson announced the compact on Monday at a press conference with Stockbridge-Munsee and local officials in Sullivan County, where the tribe and its development partner, Trading Cove Associates, plan to build a 584,000-square-foot casino and resort.”
“They came to Pennsylvania in the 1690s, some groups settling on the lower Susquehanna, and others with the Munsee near Easton.”
“And areas around Munsee, to the south, far less, only about four inches.”
“As part of a new reality show called "Armed and Fabulous" -- "Armed and Famous," sorry, Latoya and other stars, including Eric Estrada and Jack Osborne have been sworn in as reserve officers of the Munsee police department.”
“Attention citizens of Munsee (ph), Indiana, Latoya Jackson is in your town and she ` s got a gun.”
“York Indians, more particularly those known as the St.ckbridge, Munsee and Brothertown tribes, the Six Nations and the St. Regis tribe.”
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
“Other chiefs succeed, after whom "the Easterners and the Wolves" -- probably the Mahican or Wappinger and the Munsee -- move off to the northeast.”
“We have thus a traditional record of a war of conquest carried on against the Talligewi by four successive chiefs, and a succession of about twenty-five chiefs between the final expulsion of that tribe and the appearance of the whites, in which interval the Nanticoke, Shawano, Mahican, and Munsee branched off from the parent tribe of the Delawares.”
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