词汇 | coeur d’alene |
词源 | Coeur d’Alene. It is said that the Skitswish Indians of north- ern Idaho took the name Coeur d’Alene (French for “awl-heart”) after some unknown chief of the tribe used the words to de- scribe the size of a dishonest white trader’s heart, which he compared to the small point of an awl. |
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