Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as baboosh.

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Examples

  • Pink gauze trousers spangled with silver, and slippers of the same color as the band which clasped her ringlets (but so covered with pearls that the original hue of the charming little papoosh disappeared entirely) completed her costume.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Pink gauze trousers spangled with silver, and slippers of the same color as the band which clasped her ringlets (but so covered with pearls that the original hue of the charming little papoosh disappeared entirely) completed her costume.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Then they made sure that the shelf had not been broken except by the violence of that slipper, and they examined it when, behold, the house-master cried, saying, "This be the papoosh of Abu Kasim the Drummer."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The house-folk heard the breakage ringing and rattling; so they crowded one after other to discover what had done the damage and at last they found my papoosh sprawling amiddlemost the room.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Man, hold thyself secure therefrom for an he bespeak me with a single word I will slipper him with my papoosh; [FN#582] and her rejoined, "May safety be thine!"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Pink gauze trousers spangled with silver, and slippers of the same color as the band which clasped her ringlets (but so covered with pearls that the original hue of the charming little papoosh disappeared entirely) completed her costume.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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