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buffalo robe

noun

  1. the prepared skin of an American bison, with the hair left on, used as a lap robe, rug, or blanket.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of buffalo robe1

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
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Example Sentences

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This was his buffalo robe, they tell me.

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In spite of the intense cold, Crazy Horse tossed off his buffalo robe so he could handle his weapons more easily.

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The doctor, the daughter of the last traditional chief of the Omaha Tribe, Iron Eye or Joseph La Flesche, passed up more lucrative offers to return to the Omaha Reservation, where she did house calls in a horse and buggy and wrapped in a buffalo robe.

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Then Turner fetched the soapstones and they headed to Yarmouth, the wind on their beam now and colder, so that Turner hunched the buffalo robe up around him and wished that the embers in the foot warmers weren’t dying so quickly.

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I pulled a big furry buffalo robe out of mine.

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