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papoose

/pa-poos, puh-/US // pæˈpus, pə- //UK // (pəˈpuːs) //

纸尿裤,纸团,纸巾,纸牌游戏

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a North American Indian baby or young child.

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Examples

  • The boy had never seen so tiny a papoose, and he thought he would take it home to his mother, it was so cunning.

  • Behind her came Burning Pine, the younger wife, a papoose strapped to her back, looking equally determined.

  • The papoose has first a child-name, which later gives place to the appellation which it will use through life.

  • In a little while he lay upon his side, trussed up as securely and helplessly as a papoose in its birch-bark carrying-cradle.

  • Chick-chick gesticulated the proposition that the white papoose be brought into the tent, where he could be seen.