1677. Mather, New England (1864), 197. To make the English believe those base Papooses were of royal Progeny.
1683. Roger Williams [Bartlett]. Papoose . . . among the native Indians of New England, a babe or young child.
18[?]. Dow, Sermons [Bartlett] Where the Indian squaw hung her young pappoose upon the bough, and left it to squall at the hush-a-by of the blast, the Anglo-Saxon mother now rocks the cradle of her delicate babe.
Par, subs. (old colloquial: now
recognised).—1. See quot.
c.1696. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Par, gold and silver at a like Proportion.
2. (colloquial).—An abbreviation of 'paragraph.'
1885. Sat. Review, 7 Feb., 163. It is natural that the reporter should want news. Pars are as much his quarry as dynamiters are that of the police.
1891. Morning Advertiser, 28 Mar. I cannot give the wording of the par, but here is a faithful digest of it.
Parade, To burn the parade,
verb. phr. (old).—See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Warning more men for a guard than were necessary, and excusing the supernumeraries for money. . . . A practice formerly winked at in most garrisons, a perquisite to the adjutants and sergeant majors; the pretence for it was to purchase coal and candle for the guard, whence it was called burning the parade.
Parader, subs. (old).—1. A person
of good figure and address employed
to walk up and down in
front of, or inside a shop; a shop-walker:
cf. Barker. Hence
(2) a person or thing that by
challenging attention acts as a
foil or set-off.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, ii. 3. What think you . . . of rejecting both your men and encouraging my parader.
1821. Egan, Anec. of Turf, 179. His fine figure obtained him employment as a parader to Richardson.
Paradise, subs. (popular).—1. The
gallery of a theatre; the gods
(q.v.) Fr. le paradis.
2. (University).—A grove of trees outside St. John's College, Oxford.
3. (venery).—The female pudendum: cf. the way to heaven: see Monosyllable.
d.1638. Carew, A Rapture, 59. So will I rifle all the sweets that dwell In thy delicious Paradise.
1640. Herrick, Disc. of a Woman, 72. This loue-guarded parradice.
c.1697. Aphra Behn, Poems (2nd ed.), 70. His daring Hand that Altar seiz'd, Where Gods of Love do Sacrifice: That Awful Throne, the Paradise.
Fool's Paradise, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A state of fancied security, enjoyment, &c.
1528. Roy, Rede Me, &c. [Oliphant, New Eng., i. 446]. A foles paradyse.
1591. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. If ye should lead her into a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour.
1607. Dekker, Westward Hoe, v. 1. Since we ha' brought 'em thus far into a fool's paradise, leave 'em in't
1733. Bailey, Erasmus Coll. (1900), ii. 173. The designing courtier had been for a long time kept in Fool's Paradise.
1896. Cotsford Dick, Ways of World, 20. So she dreamt of a Paradise (fool so fair!) Whose glories she now is allowed to share.
1898. Braddon, Rough Justice, 22. She had exchanged a wretched wandering Life with her father for a fool's paradise at the West End of London.
To have (or get) a penn'orth OF paradise, verb. phr. (common).—To take drink, esp. gin: see Screwed.
Paralysed, subs. (common).—Drunk:
see Drinks and
Screwed.
