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From: Janet <nobody@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:17:55 +0100
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In article <87a5gsplpx.fsf@parhasard.net>, 
kehoea@parhasard.net says...
> 
> I came across this word for the first time today, in the second meaning from
> Wikipedia, describing basically something to swaddle a toddler to keep it still
> for a procedure in Emergency Medicine:
> 
> ?Papoose (from the Narragansett papoos, meaning "child")[1] is an American
> English word whose present meaning is "a Native American child" (regardless of
> tribe) or, even more generally, any child, usually used as a term of
> endearment, often in the context of the child's mother.[2] In 1643, Roger
> Williams recorded the word in his A Key into the Language of America, helping
> to popularize it.[3]
> [...]
> Cradle boards and other child carriers used by Native Americans are known by
> various names. In Algonquin history, the term papoose is sometimes used to
> refer to a child carrier.?
> 
> Given I am 43 and fairly well-read I can assert that it has basically no
> currency outside the US.

   The native-American "papoose" back-board child carrier 
was known to me in early childhood (and probably every 
other kid enthralled by "Cowboys and Indians".

    When we had children I rediscovered it all over again 
thanks to Mothercare. We had a baby back carrier called a 
papoose. 

   Janet.