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The brewery’s beer menu includes several European craft lagers like peace pipe, sugar leaf, marigold, and a Czech dark.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2024
The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
—Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
Over the years, workers have found everything from live snakes to peace pipes to shrunken heads in luggage, leading some to wonder if the items weren’t lost on purpose.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2023
That collection, said to include a mummified falcon from King Tut’s tomb and Sitting Bull’s peace pipe, likely included looted objects.
—Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
The queen presided over the dedication ceremony, accepting a copy of the original petition and a red stone peace pipe from the delegation.
—Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
If there is any way to fire up the peace pipe, that is the way to do it.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
Another tradition surrounding this matchup is the smoking of a peace pipe at halftime of their matchups by members of two junior honorary societies — Bucket and Dipper of Ohio State and Atius-Sachem of Illinois.
—Scott Horner, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
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First Known Use
1760, in the meaning defined above
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“Peace pipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peace%20pipe. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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