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pembina
[ pem-buh-nuh, pem-bee- ]
noun
, Canadian (chiefly the Prairie Provinces).
- highbush cranberry.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pembina1
1750–60; earlier panbina, pemine < Canadian French (now spelling pimbina ) < Cree ni·pimina·na, plural of ni·pimina·n, a derivative with -min- berry
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Example Sentences
It was supposed to have come from the Pembina country for those people had wheat long before the missionaries came.
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I have heard that the carts around Pembina were formerly all like this, but in my day they generally had spokes.
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The reception by the French half-breed residents of Pembina was90 not now so friendly as that of the previous winter.
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The fatigues and mishaps of the journey to Pembina were, however, only the beginning of trouble for the winter.
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Sheriff Ross, who was a visitor from the Settlement to Pembina in the dreary winter there, describes the scene of horror.
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