papoose
noun
a North American Indian baby or young child.
pappoose
-
a variation of
papoose.
Example Sentences
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With an effort he mustered together his Spanish phrases and managed to reply that he had seen no pappoose.
From Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various
Yes, true it was, that all those massive timbers, all that ponderous mass of rock, had only availed to capture one very small Ute pappoose.
From Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various
"Then is not Samoset my brother, and lies he not close to the heart of Sassacus, as a pappoose nestles up to its mother?"
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
Every dead gopher An-ina told him meant more food for the pappoose on the Reserve.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
She sat on the grass, caressing the young pappoose, and talked with the mother in that untaught, mute language that young and kind hearts so easily understand.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee
