How To Use papoose In A Sentence
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- There were little blankets designed to wrap the baby like a papoose, but I worried that I would wrap the child too tight and suffocate her. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
- [Footnote: An Indian baby; but "papoose" is not an Indian word. Canadian Crusoes
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- A half-black, half-Cherokee papoose that cost you 35 grand. Colorado
- [Footnote: An Indian baby, but "papoose" is not an Indian word. Lost in the Backwoods
- papoose," or child, wigwam, &c. &c., though it is doubtful whether they belonged at all to any Indian dialect, are much used by both white and red men in their Intercourse. The Prairie
- Occasionally, "papoose" or "squaw" is used for given names, or a number is used in place of the given name. Archive 2007-06-01
- Among the western Eskimo, "the mother who loses her nursling places the poor 'papoose' in a beautifully ornamented box, which she fastens on her back and carries about her for a long while. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
- He looked eagerly and anxiously at them, as if seeking for the "papoose" who was a little larger than Russ. Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's
