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Indian file

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Single file. US, especially, uncommon

    "In about an hour they returned very much intoxicated, singing their dead war songs, and every warrior naked, painted black from head to foot: as they approached the house in Indian file, each one repeated the following words […]"

  2. 2
    a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other wordnet

Etymology

Attested since the 18th century, as Native Americans traversed woods in this way.

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