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Pappoose

noun
1.
An American Indian infant.  Synonym: papoose.






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"Pappoose" Quotes from Famous Books



... The next bore a desperately wounded brave whose bloodless lips were compressed in agony and dumb as those of the dead. About these cowered, shivering and whimpering, two or three terror-stricken squaws, one of them with a round-eyed pappoose staring at her back. A pony lay struggling in the snow close by. Half a dozen rough soldier hands were dragging a stricken rider from underneath. Half a dozen more were striving to control the wild plungings of another mettlesome little beast, whose rider, sitting firmly ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

... The Indians live by hunting, And bring home many a beaver-skin To wrap the little pappoose in. And mother-squaw the baby'll tie Fast on a board, and swinging high, Will hang it up among the trees To rock-a-bye with every breeze; But our dear baby, snug and warm, Shall ...
— Mother Truth's Melodies - Common Sense For Children • Mrs. E. P. Miller



Words linked to "Pappoose" :   papoose, babe, baby, infant



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