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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Papa

Father The former is Greek pappas (father); Chaldee, abba. For many centuries after the Conquest, the “gentry” taught their children to use the word “papa,” but this custom is now almost gone out.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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