A historical name for an Algonquian people of northeastern North America, also spelled Almouchiquois.
From Algonquian languages; the exact etymology is uncertain, but it was the European term for indigenous groups in what is now Maine and Massachusetts. The name appears in early colonial records.
This word is a linguistic ghost—it's one of those terms European colonists used that didn't stick around because the peoples themselves were largely displaced or the name fell out of use, making it historically important but living mainly in archives now.
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