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- noun Plural form of
pappoose .
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Examples
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But these "pappooses," so quaint and small, so very helpless, were entirely dependent upon the succor of
The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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All this was beyond me, and I told him so, and we parted good friends, while he shook his long head and went home to feed many pappooses.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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In it were not only braves, but also squaws and pappooses, and a few negroes.
Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Edson Leone Whitney
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A chief with his two squaws and two pappooses were coaxed into a picture-car, one day, to be photographed.
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For, several times runners had come in hot haste bidding the squaws flee with their pappooses to the forest and hide there till the palefaces had passed.
Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Edson Leone Whitney
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Most of them have squaw wives, and are rearing large families of ugly pappooses, and many have amassed wealth by their long trade with the fur companies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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In front of the house I found quite a number of Indian braves, with their squaws and pappooses, all riding on sorry-looking ponies.
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No wonder, then, that coming unexpectedly on the dead elk Bluff had shot, they had stolen it, for hunger stalked in their miserable camp, and the pappooses cried for the food the braves could not supply.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness Quincy Allen
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Southwestern shore of the Lake were formerly more wretched than now -- the squaws more ragged, and the pappooses more Squalléd; and when CARVER came through he established a charity soup-house near the western extremity.
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When he and his family resisted they were ignominiously exiled, and sent forth to face the world without means for providing food for the squaws and pappooses.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness Quincy Allen
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