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# papoose

noun (papooses); old use

«papoose» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A papoose is a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle, wrapped tightly in cloth. The word is old and comes from a North American language. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#m1)

### In the lessons

old use, in stories about babies swaddled tightly, like a papoose

### Examples

- Babies were swaddled tightly, like papooses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x1)
- The mother carried her papoose on her back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x2)
- Old books used the word papoose for a baby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; each papoose is one baby, so count one per papoose.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «papoose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«papoose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/papoose.html) on Mova free.