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New arrival on a reservation
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papoose
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A papoose is a Native American child. Papoose may also refer to: Papoose (rapper) , an American rapper Cradle board , a type of child carrier Papoose (tanker) , an American ship launched in 1921 Marlin Model 70P , a portable semi-automatic .22 rifle, known ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There was a six month old baby en papoose on board.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Papoose \Pa*poose"\, n. A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.
Usage examples of papoose.
Navaho squaw and one papoose or more, and sometimes the beehive-shaped hodags in which the Navahos wintered.
Papoose followed the paint-horse as Harris put Calico down the slippery sidehill and lifted him round the point of the herd.
One day, when he woke up, everyone was clambering into their translucent pressure suits: men, women, children, even infants in little sacklike papooses.
Apparently the deal was that one of the bettors that bet with Sorkin through Fackelmann was a guy Gately and Fackelmann know only as Eighties Bill, an impeccably groomed guy that wore red suspenders under snazzy Zegna-brand menswear and tortoiseshell specs and Docksiders, an old-fashioned corporate take-overer and asset-plunderer, maybe fifty, with an Exchange Place office and a souvenir FREE MILKEN bumper sticker on his Beamer it was a night of many highballs and much papoosing, and Gately had to keep flicking the top of P.
A series of thick-walled adobe structures were connected by low-ceilinged breezeways, in the middle of which existed the beautiful courtyard that came complete with palm trees, bubbling fountain, and a bronze statue of Father Serra with these women – your stereotypical Indian squaws, complete with papooses strapped to their backs – kneeling at his feet.
Nanny tends to little Nessa, papoosing her around in the daily hunt for charfish, needle flowers, and broad bean vines.
The infant was propped upright on his papoose board so he could watch the marine scene, and Marc lay flat on his back, idly studying the small cumulus clouds overhead and seeing if he could influence their chang.
Now, as I strapped the baby down on a papoose board, I saw in his desperate face that of an old man, bald, tormented at being strapped down into a nursing home bed, both faces at once.
Kris started the fad of the papoose board, dredging that up from reading Westerns and historical novels about Indians.
She reached her hand under the blanket they lay on and withdrew the papoose board she'd hidden under it.
Again, Janeway was reminded of a frontier town--or perhaps an early American Indian village, she reflected, as she watched a woman pass by carrying a baby on her back in what could easily have passed for a papoose board.