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| Mal·e·cite [ mállə st ] (plural Mal·e·cites or Mal·e·cite) or Mal·i·seet [ mállə st ] (plural Mal·i·seets or Mal·i·seet) |
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1. Native N American people: a member of a Native North American people who live in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Maine. The Malecites joined the Abenaki confederacy and fought against both the Iroquois confederacy and the British.
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2. language of Malecites: the Algonquian language of the Malecite people
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| [Mid-19th century. < Mi'kmaq malisiit "somebody who speaks an incomprehensible language"] |
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 Mal·e·cite adjective |
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