Definitions

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  • noun a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick
  • noun the Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody

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Examples

  • Micmac, Malecite, Abnaki, Nascapi, and the Montagnais of Labrador; west of Quebec are the Missisauga and the Ojibwa Confederacy; and in the southern part of the north-west the Saulteurs, Wood Cree, Plain

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • The Malecite or Maliseet were maliseet ` broken talkers 'to the Micmac and

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

  • “Notes on the Malecite of Woodstock, New Brunswick.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • “Notes on the Malecite of Woodstock, New Brunswick.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Beaujeu_, in _Le Canada Francçais, Documents_, 53.] and then fell back to Chignecto, on the neck of the Acadian peninsula, where he made his quarters, with a force which, including Micmac, Malecite, and Penobscot

    A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Francis Parkman 1858

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