buffalo skin

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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especially among fur traders, a buffalo hide dressed on both sides.

Quotations

1754

. . . he received us seated on a clear (white) Buffalo skin, attended by 20 elderly men.

1953

In the middle of the prairillon was a lake, with buffalo-skin tepees pitched around it.

2a — Obs.

See robe (def. 1b) 1848 quote.

See: buffalo robe,robe(def. 1b)

1769

. . . we have a large buffaloe's skin under our feet, which turns up, and wraps round us almost to our shoulders. . . .

1837

Ten shillings reward will be paid to any one who has found my Buffalo Skin, and will bring it to me.

a long winter coat of buffalo skin.

1957

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, dismounted and bundled in buffalo skins, shivered and stamped their feet on the slippery driveway.