a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
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family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
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Algonquin \Al*gon"quin\, Algonkin \Al*gon"kin\, n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. ※ ||
Best documentary feature was "The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Wisdom of the Algonquin Roundtable," and best documentary short subject was "Young At Heart."
The show has been delayed while Mason completes his Algonquin engagement, and he tries to juggle all his offers from the rich and the famous.
They also bought hotels, including the Algonquin, the Stanhope, the Inter-Continental and the Essex House.
Inside is a mannequin of one of Roosevelt's six children with their pet pony, Algonquin, which once was smuggto greet a bedrivelt.
Of Marion Meade's biography of Dorothy Parker he describes the writing as 'shoddy, the mood sour and the subject resolutely unsympathetic', though that does not prevent him delving into the squalid intricacies of the Algonquin world.