roanoke

alternative rawranoke

1. UShistoricaluncountableWhite beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.

   The king of Machepungo was ordered to deliver over twice as much roanoke in graduated payments over the course of eight months.

   1993, Joseph Douglas Deal, Race and class in colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the seventeenth century, page 23

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   Cuscarawaoke, where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the savages, as gold and silver amongst Christians […]

   1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 94

   Pohatan, King of Virgiania's habit all embroidered with shells, or Roanoke (p. 47); Virginian purses imbroidered with Roanoake (p. 51)

   1656, John Tradescant, Musaeum Tradescantianum, pages 47 and 51, different spelling as printed

1. A placename:
   1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Roanoke Colony: a failed late 16th century English former colony on what is now the coast of North Carolina in the United States.

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      These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.

      2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN

      Synonyms: Roanoke Colony, Lost Colony

   2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Roanoke County
   3. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Roanoke Island
   4. A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
   5. A village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
   6. A town in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
   7. An unincorporated community in Howard County and Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
   8. A city in Denton County, Texas, United States.
   9. An independent city in Virginia, United States.
   10. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.