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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cal•u•met (kal′yə met′, kal′yə met′),USA pronunciation n. - Anthropologya long-stemmed, ornamented tobacco pipe used by North American Indians on ceremonial occasions, esp. in token of peace. Also called peace pipe.
- French, origin, originally dialect, dialectal (Norman, Picard): pipe stem, a by-form of French chalumeau chalumeau, with suffix altered to -et -et
- 1710–20
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: calumet /ˈkæljʊˌmɛt/ n - a less common name for peace pipe
Etymology: 18th Century: from Canadian French, from French (Normandy dialect): straw, from Late Latin calamellus a little reed, from Latin: calamus |