calumet

UK: /ˈkæljʊˌmɛt/ US: (kal′yə met′, kal′yə met′)

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cal•u•met  (kal′yə met′, kal′yə met′), n. 

1. Anthropology a 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

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calumet / ˈkæljʊˌmɛt/ noun

1. 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