Today’s Modismo is a lunfardo word, papirusa, meaning beautiful woman. Because many beautiful young Polish immigrants were smokers, locals began using the Polish word for cigarette, “papiros”, to describe them. Over time papiros became papirusa!
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Today’s Modismo is a lunfardo word, papirusa, meaning beautiful woman. Because many beautiful young Polish immigrants were smokers, locals began using the Polish word for cigarette, “papiros”, to describe them. Over time papiros became papirusa!