Iroquese

From French Iroquois.

• Rhymes: -iːz

Iroquese (plural Iroquese)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Iroquois
   • 1871, Charles Roger, Ottawa Past and Present, Ottawa, page 2:

     […] Frontenac, now Kingston, was situated on Lake Ontario, which, as Hennepin tells us, was called by the Iroquese, Kanandario, which means “very pretty lake,” and where the deep clear waters of that most safely navigable of all the great lakes of this continent, the source of North America’s chiefest natural wealth, are gathered into a very narrow outlet; […]

   • 1875, Alfred Henry Huth, The Marriage of Near Kin Considered with Respect to the Laws of Nations, the Results of Experience, and the Teachings of Biology, London, page 117:

     The Iroquese and the Delaware never marry into their own stock.

   • 1891, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, volume 6, Boston, page 35:

     On my journey through the country of the Iroquese I saw the women employed in manufacturing this hemp.

Iroquese (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Iroquois
   • 1878, Alfred B. Street, Frontenac: A Poem, Albany, page 301:

     “There was an Iroquese captain,” says Hennepin “who, one day wanting his bowl, entered into the town of Montreal, in Canada, crying ‘Hai! hai!’ which, in their language, is the sign of peace; he was received with many caresses of kindness.”

   • 1905, New Voyages to North-America‎^[1], volume 1, page 119:

     […] the Iroquese Country.

   • 1992, Africana Bulletin‎^[2], page 74:

     In North America the Narragansett Indian Church set up in 1740, Jaqui Syncretic Churches existing since 1760 and the Handsome Lake cult among the Iroquese people still function.

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