buffalo robe†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See robe (def. 1b) 1848 quote.

Quotations

1775

We were obliged to wrap ourselves continually in beaver blankets, or at least in ox-skins, which the traders call buffalo-robes.

1957

[Caption] Mrs. Lucy Nanertak of Chesterfield Inlet is repairing a 100-year old buffalo robe presented to a Hudson Bay Factor by Chief Sitting Bull.

1967

Lieutenant-Governor . . . Rowe stepped into the open landau outside the Royal York Hotel and pushed aside the heavy buffalo robe on the seat. . . .