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pemmican

noun

pem·​mi·​can ˈpe-mi-kən How to pronounce pemmican (audio)
variants or less commonly pemican
: a concentrated food used by North American Indians and consisting of lean meat dried, pounded fine, and mixed with melted fat
also : a similar preparation (as of dried beef, flour, molasses, suet) used for emergency rations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Ancient Incas utilized meat dehydration as far back as the 1500s, and indigenous North Americans shared a version of jerky, called pemmican, with the first European settlers. The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Apr. 2020 At TMIP, Baltzley, a white guy with dreadlocks, offered testing menus inspired by his explorations of Native American cooking — pemmican, bison, berries. Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018 There was food, too, including a hunk of unappetizing pemmican. John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 May 2018 People used to rely on food that could last, like pemmican and hardtack, Spam and Twinkies. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017

Word History

Etymology

Cree pimihka·n

First Known Use

1743, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pemmican was in 1743
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