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wampum (n.)
string of seashell beads used as money by Native Americans, 1630s, shortened from New England Algonquian
wampumpeag
(1620s), "string of white (shell beads);" said to be compounded from
wab
"white" +
ompe
"string" + plural suffix
-ag
.
