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peag

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SayPEEGUS/piɡ/UK/piːɡ/

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    noununcountable
    Small beads made from shells, once used by some Native American peoples as money and for trade.

    Like small shells used as coins to buy and sell things.

    The traders exchanged furs for strings of peag along the coast.

    She wore a wide belt sewn with rows of polished peag.

    Similarwampum

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Origin

It comes from the last part of the Narragansett word "wampumpeag."