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On 2024-08-31 12:54, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> 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. Does it have much currency within the US?

I was somewhat befuddled when I first heard someone call the child a 
'papoose', as I had always  heard it in reference to a child carrier.

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