buffalo coat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a long winter coat of buffalo skin.

See: buffalo skin(def. 2b)

Quotations

1846

All sentries, by day or night, were provided with buffalo coats kept at each post for their use.

1871

. . . the greater part of the congregation assembled at the door in their buffalo coats and furs. . . .

1956

The same old man on the camp chair who'd been there the other night, but now in an old buffalo coat, was holding bags in one team.