kabloona

kabloona
/kab looh"neuh/, n. Canadian (chiefly Arctic).
a white man; a European.
[1765-75; < Inuit qablunaaq, prob. deriv. of qava the South; assoc. with qablu "eyebrow" has given rise to the spurious trans. "person with big eyebrows"]

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