Adirondack
pronunciation
How to pronounce Adirondack in British English:
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Word Origin
- Adirondack (adj.)
- 1906, in reference to a type of lawn or deck chair said to have been designed in 1903 by a Thomas Lee, owner of the Westport Mountain Spring, a resort in the Adirondack region of New York State, and commercially manufactured the following year, but said originally to have been called Westport chair after the town where it was first made. Adirondack Mountains is a back-formation from Adirondacks, treated as a plural noun but really from Mohawk (Iroquoian) adiro:daks "tree-eaters," a name applied to neighboring Algonquian tribes, in which the -s is an imperfective affix.
Example
- 1. Our backpack wasn 't the only casualty on our adirondack hiking trip ; my favorite ( and only ) pair of hiking boots also suffered .