How To Use Papoose In A Sentence
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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
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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
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[Footnote: An Indian baby; but "papoose" is not an Indian word.
Canadian Crusoes
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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
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A half-black, half-Cherokee papoose that cost you 35 grand.
Colorado
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[Footnote: An Indian baby, but "papoose" is not an Indian word.
Lost in the Backwoods
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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
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Occasionally, "papoose" or "squaw" is used for given names, or a number is used in place of the given name.
Archive 2007-06-01
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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
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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
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Micmac" Indians, for Prof. Lee has spent his enforced leisure in putting in anthropometric work among them, inducing braves, squaws and papooses of both sexes to mount the trunk that served as a measuring block and go through the ordeal of having their height, standing and sitting, stretch of arms, various diameters of head and peculiarities of the physiognomy taken down.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
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I wish I knew what he meant by that 'papoose' he's always talking about.
Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's
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But if a child is very disruptive and they can be VERY fussy, a papoose is a safer way to control the patient.
Sedation in Pediatric Dentistry
