medicine bag

noun

A small pouch holding sacred items, worn by some indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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Meanings

nounmedicine bag (plural medicine bags)

plural medicine bags

  1. A small pouch holding sacred items, worn by some indigenous peoples of the Americas.

    I thought I might be unlucky for them, because the spirits took away my medicine bag.

    1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 35
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