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From: Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:42:38 -0400
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When I first heard the word "papoose" in the forties, it meant a
swaddled infant in a backpack.

So both the "child" sense and the "carrier" sense are new to me.

-- 
Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier, 
some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii
joy beeson at centurylink dot net      http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/