Ēs'qui-mau, n.

(ēs'kĭ-mō), n.; pl. Ēs'qui-maux (ēs'kĭ-mōz). (Geog.) An Indian of any of the tribes inhabiting arctic America and Greenland.

It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. Captain McClintock.

☞ The term originally designated the aboriginal inhabitants of Labrador.