| 单词 | blanket indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlanket Indian Blanket Indian n. U.S. (chiefly depreciative or derogatory) (now historical) a member of a North American Indian people who wears a traditional shawl, cloak, or similar garment, esp. as opposed to adopting Western dress or customs; cf. sense B. 1a. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Blanket-Indian, a wild Indian, whose principal article of dress is the blanket. 1889 Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv. West of 100th Meridian (Engineer Dept., U.S. Army) I. iv. 217 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs refers to the Indian population as civilized, part[l]y civilized.., and ‘blanket Indians.’ 1906 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 328/2 Only 26,000 blanket Indians are left in the United States. 1989 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 16 Feb. 4/1 It's time for the Navajos to start realizing that the world is moving on and they are being left behind as ‘Blanket Indians.’ 2008 L. Erdrich Plague of Doves (2009) 5 The bark huts of the blanket Indians were crushed by the weight of the birds. < as lemmas |
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