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What is a papoose?

What is a papoose? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. baby
  2. (Britain) backpack
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The former was wrapped in an Indian blanket, and carried a papoose on her back.
With the hood up, and her gleaming black eyes, she looked like a little Iroquois girl walking around in her own papoose.
The day I was there, an old woman walked in carrying a baby girl wrapped in a blanket, like a papoose, on her back.
But she's also a female woman, an' owns a papoose of her own.
Then it had travelled on, and every thing had gone down before it-the chief and the brave, the medicineman, the squaw, the papoose.
A second factor may be more peripatetic communities, in which the invention of infant-carrying devices, such as the papoose technique of North American Indians, has made it unnecessary for the infant to support itself.

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