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Powwow   /pˈaʊwˌaʊ/   Listen
Powwow

verb
1.
Hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting.






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"Powwow" Quotes from Famous Books



... busy days of preparation for Peggy and Polly, for the outcome of that fireside powwow had been a decision in favor of Columbia Heights School for Polly also, for that winter at least, and when the fifteenth dawned bright and frosty, Mrs. Harold accompanied the girls to Washington, Captain Stewart's leave having meantime expired. ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... hold their powwows upon its summit, is three hundred and thirty-two feet high, and commands a view so extended that many visitors make the ascent. One of Whittier's early prose legends is of a bewitched Yankee whose runaway horse took him to the top of this hill into a midnight powwow of Indian ghosts. In describing the hill he says: "It is a landmark to the skippers of the coasting craft that sail up Newburyport harbor, and strikes the eye by its abrupt elevation and orbicular shape, the outlines being as regular as if struck off by the sweep of a ...
— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard



Words linked to "Powwow" :   hash out, colloquialism, council, group discussion, discuss, conference, huddler, talk over



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