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Definition of Pappoose
1. Noun. An American Indian infant.
Definition of Pappoose
1. n. Same as Papoose.
Definition of Pappoose
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of papoose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pappoose
1. papoose [n -S] - See also: papoose
Medical Definition of Pappoose
1.
Same as Papoose. Pappoose root.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pappoose
Literary usage of Pappoose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"The pappoose, after being weaned, for the next five or six years ... The pappoose
finds hisown playthings, as a rule, though his father occasionally unbends ..."
2. A History of the United States: For Schools by Wilbur Fisk Gordy (1899)
"This was necessary INDIAN SNOW-SHOES AND pappoose-CASE. because the Indian could
not write. Apart from other uses it was valued also as money. 71. Religion. ..."
3. Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side. No. 4 by Julia McNair Wright (1896)
"A NEW FASHION OF pappoose. " Still this great solitude is quick with life ;
Myriads of insects, gaudy as the flowers They flutter over, gentle quadrupeds, ..."
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