papoose
noun
a North American Indian baby or young child.
pappoose
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a variation of
papoose.
Example Sentences
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A tiny pappoose hung on the back of one of them, and gazed over her shoulder with solemn, speculative eyes at the long files of soldiers on their tall horses.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
And it was the child's desire that the pappoose on the Reserve should eat to repletion.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
"Has the great captain seen a pappoose about his wigwam?" asked the chief, nowise abashed, in Spanish—a language which many of the Southern Utes speak as fluently as their own.
From Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various
Soog-u-gest flies so high that he sees a great way, and Quecheco spoke like a pappoose.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
It is believed that "moccasin," "squaw," "pappoose," "sago," "tomahawk," "wigwam," &c. &c. all belong to this class of words.
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
