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adirondack
/ˌædɪˈɹɑndæk/
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What does adirondack mean?
noun
- A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.
- Abbreviation of Adirondack lean-to.
proper noun
- The Adirondacks (as a region).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌædɪˈɹɑndæk/
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In the Adirondack woods is a wage-earner and lay preacher in the lumber-camps who is of noble character and deeply religious.
With all his vices, however, intemperance cannot be attributed to him, in spite of the name given him by the Adirondack lumbermen and guides.
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The canoe, as you know, is managed by a single paddle, though I have seen, up in some of the Adirondack lakes, canoes that were driven by oars.
Jimmie McBride says that the next time he is bidden to a social event in this college, he is going to bring one of their Adirondack tents and pitch it on the campus.
If one begins to watch the swirling flakes and crystals, he soon gets an impression of infinity of resources that he can have from nothing else so powerfully, except it be from Adirondack gnats.