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pap boat
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Etymology
Noun
- (now historical) A boat-shaped receptacle for baby food. [from 18th c.]
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.10:
- “I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it.”
- (zoology, obsolete) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapa), once used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing. [19th c.]
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