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# papoose

«papoose» in Mova's school dictionary: **a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (papooses); old use

### meaning for a pupil

A papoose is a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle, wrapped tightly in cloth. The word is old and comes from a North American language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

old use, in stories about babies swaddled tightly, like a papoose

### examples

- Babies were swaddled tightly, like papooses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x1)
- The mother carried her papoose on her back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x2)
- Old books used the word papoose for a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; each papoose is one baby, so count one per papoose.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «papoose» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papoose/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.