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papoose-carrier
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried.
See: cradle-board
Quotations
1959
The old mother . . . smoked contentedly, keeping one eye . . . on the papoose-carrier in which a month old baby was laced.
1961
Kathleen snoozes in her papoose-carrier lightly carried by her mother.