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Noun:

मूँगे की लड़ियां, वाम्पम,

wampum's Usage Examples:

Wampum was also used for personal adornment, and belts were made by embroidering wampum upon strips of deerskin.

Connecticut received wampum for taxes in 1637 at four a penny.

Dark wampum, which was made from a "hard shell" clam (Venus mercenaria), popularly called quahang or quahog, a corruption of the Indian name, was the most valuable.

White wampum was made from the shell of whelks, either from the common whelk (Buccinum undatum), or from that of Pyrula canaliculata and Pyrula carica.

WAMPUM, or Wampum-Peage (Amer.

The term wampum or wampum-peage was apparently applied to the beads only when strung or woven together.

A strand of wampum, consisting of purple and white shell-beads or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colours, operated on the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string or figure, thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to the memory.

wampum, " white"; peag, " bead"), the shell-money of the North American Indians.

Wampum was of two colours, dark purple and white, of cylindrical form, averaging a quarter of an inch in length, and about half that in diameter.

Wampum was employed most in New England, but it was common elsewhere.

wampum's Meaning':

informal terms for money

Synonyms:

string of beads, wampumpeag, peag, beads,

Antonyms:

outgo, sour, soothe, uncover,