noun
- a long-stemmed, ornamented tobacco pipe used by North American Indians on ceremonial occasions, especially in token of peace.
noun
- a less common name for peace pipe
1660s, from Canadian French calumet, from Norman French calumet “pipe” (Old French chalemel, 12c., Modern French chalumeau), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus “reed; something made of reed or shaped like a reed” (see shawm).