Meaning of Papoose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Native American baby.
   US, dated, offensive
2. A backpack for carrying a baby, or specifically a cradleboard.
   UK

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Examples

“[…] a half-breed what they nicknamed "Splinters" 'cos of the way he fixed up her papoose which he stole on a raid […]”

“They say he has Indian blood in him. They say he has an Indian wife somewhere, and a lot of papooses. Cherokee.”

“In the empty Houston streets of four o’clock in the morning a motorcycle kid suddenly roared through, all bespangled and bedecked with glittering buttons, visor, slick black jacket, a Texas poet of the night, girl gripped on his back like a papoose, […]”

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