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  • noun Plural form of sagamore.

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Examples

  • When he finished, the grand sagamore smoked a long pipe, passed it to the other sagamores and to Pont-Gravé, and began to speak “with great gravity.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Pont-Gravé, Champlain, Anadabijou, the sagamores, and most of all the two young Montagnais who had been to Paris did that together.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain described these leaders as sagamores, and Anadabijou of the Tadoussac Montagnais as the “grand sagamore” who presided over the gathering as the host.20

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • When he finished, the grand sagamore smoked a long pipe, passed it to the other sagamores and to Pont-Gravé, and began to speak “with great gravity.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain described these leaders as sagamores, and Anadabijou of the Tadoussac Montagnais as the “grand sagamore” who presided over the gathering as the host.20

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Pont-Gravé, Champlain, Anadabijou, the sagamores, and most of all the two young Montagnais who had been to Paris did that together.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He has done it so well that his reputation is very high among the other sagamores in the land.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He has done it so well that his reputation is very high among the other sagamores in the land.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The Wampanoag were organized into a confederation, where a head sachem chief presided over a number of other sachems and sagamores—subordinate chiefs.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

  • He was lodged in the prison, not as suspected of any offence, but as the most convenient and suitable mode of disposing of him, until the magistrates should have conferred with the Indian sagamores respecting his ransom.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

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