An old-fashioned spelling or variant name for an Inuit person, or a type of ice cream product, now considered outdated or offensive when referring to people.
From French esquimau, borrowed from Inuit languages (possibly from Algonquian eaters of raw flesh). The term became a commercial brand name (Edy's Pie) and is now considered inappropriate for describing Indigenous peoples.
The word 'Esquimau' reveals how a brand name (Edy's Pie) can outlive the original term it was based on—today it's mostly found in ice cream parlors rather than ethnography books, a relic of outdated naming conventions!
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