7/23/2023 0 Comments Crazy beautiful tattoosThe Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning "to strike". A Māori chief with tattoos ( moko) seen by Cook and his crew (drawn by Sydney Parkinson 1769), engraved for A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas by Thomas Chambers
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