esquimau Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
    Eskimo; Inuit.
  2. noun the language spoken by the Eskimo
    Eskimo.

WordNet

Es"qui*mau noun
Etymology
F.
Wordforms
plural Esquimaux
Definitions
  1. Same as Eskimo.
    It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. McClintock.

Webster 1913