英语词汇“sagakomi”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sagakomi

释义

sagakomi N. Amer.|sægəˈkəʊmɪ|
Also 8 segockimac, 8– sac à commis, 9– saccacom(m)i(s).
[a. Ojibwa sakākkomin bearberry.]
= bearberry a, b; also, the leaves of this plant used with, or as a substitute for, tobacco.
In quot. 1934 wrongly applied to madroño, Arbutus menziesii, another member of the Ericaceæ.
1703L. A. Lahontan New Voy. N. Amer. II. 53 They are forc'd to buy up Brasil Tobaco, which they mix with a certain Leaf..call'd Sagakomi.1778J. Carver Trav. Interior Parts N. Amer. 31 A weed that grows near the great lakes..is called by the Indians Segockimac, and creeps like a vine on the ground,..bearing a leaf about the size of a silver penny, nearly round... These leaves, dried and powdered, they likewise mix with their tobacco.1823J. Franklin Narr. Journey to Polar Sea 741 Jackashey-puck..has received the name of Sac à commis, from the trading clerks carrying it in their smoking bags.1836G. Back Narr. Arctic Land Exped. ix. 257 We passed many sandhills, variegated by the..plant, called..by the traders ‘sac à commis’.1837Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec III. 91 Saccacommi [is] frequently used to smoke in lieu of tobacco, by the traders engaged in the fur countries.1890L. F. R. Masson Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest II. 102 Graine d'ours, bear berry, also called sac à commis, a creeping plant which is smoked, and which the clerks put in their sacs.1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians. II. 407/2 Sagakomi. The name of a certain smoking mixture, or substitute for tobacco, applied also to the bearberry bush..or other shrubs the leaves and bark of which are used for the same purpose.1934L. L. Haskin Wild Flowers Pacific Coast 263 The coast Indian name for it [sc. madroño] seems to have been saccacomis, upon which the French constructed a pun, calling it sac-a-commis.

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