Mohican

Mohican
Mo|hi|can [məuˈhi:kən US mou-] n BrE Mo|hawk [ˈməuho:k US ˈmouho:k] AmE
[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: From the hairstyle worn by Native American men in J. Fenimore Cooper's novel Last of the Mohicans (1826)]
a hairstyle in which the hair is cut off the sides of the head, and the hair on top of the head is made to stick up and is sometimes brightly coloured
>Mohican adj
a Mohican haircut
Mohican 2
Mohican2
an imaginary ↑Native American tribe of the upper Hudson River valley in New York State, invented by the writer James Fenimore ↑Cooper for his stories, such as The Last of the Mohicans

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  • Mohican II — (steamboat) U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

  • mohican — MOHICÁN, mohicani, s.m. (La pl.) Populaţie de indieni răspândită de a lungul coastei Oceanului Atlantic, în Canada şi nord estul Statelor Unite ale Americii, astăzi pe cale de dispariţie; (şi la sg.) persoană care face parte din această populaţie …   Dicționar Român

  • Mohican — from Mahican (Algonquian) ma:hi:kan people of the tidal estuary. Spelling with o popularized by James Fenimore Cooper s novel …   Etymology dictionary

  • Mohican — ► NOUN ▪ a hair style in which the sides of the head are shaved and a central strip of hair is made to stand erect. ORIGIN erroneously associated with the American Indian people; compare with HURON(Cf. ↑H) …   English terms dictionary

  • Mohican — [mō hē′kən] n., adj. var. of MAHICAN …   English World dictionary

  • Mohican — Mohicans Les Mohicans, encore appelés Mahicans ou Mahikans constituaient une tribu d’indiens d’Amérique du Nord. Leur véritable nom est «Muhhehuneuw», ou «Peuple de la Grande Rivière». Le roman de James Fenimore Cooper Le Dernier des Mohicans… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Mohican — /moh hee keuhn/, n., pl. Mohicans, (esp. collectively) Mohican. Mahican. * * * or Mahican North American Indian people living mostly in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. Their original territory was the upper Hudson River valley above the Catskill… …   Universalium

  • Mohican — Die Mahican siedelten im 17 Jahrhundert am Hudson und Mohawk River, zogen dann ostwärts nach Massachusetts und später nach Wisconsin im Westen. Die Mahican, auch Mohican geschrieben, sind Algonkin sprechende Indianer, die im oberen Hudsontal… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • mohican — UK [məʊˈhiːkən] / US [moʊˈhɪkən] noun [countable] Word forms mohican : singular mohican plural mohicans British a hairstyle in which the hair on both sides of the head is cut off, leaving a line of hair in the middle that sticks straight up •… …   English dictionary

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