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buffalo wool
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
the fine hair beneath the coarse outer hair on a buffalo skin.
See: Buffalo Wool Company
Quotations
1913
During the early days of the Red River settlement . . . an energetic promoter named Pritchard planned an original industry--none other than that of buffalo wool.
1922
[Nothing [was] to be done but to walk out into the Plains, kill buffalo, take their wool, dress and weave it. . . .]
2n.
any of several short grasses, as Buchloë dactyloides, common on the prairies.
Quotations
1960
He felt certain that the only heather Dumont had picked had grown among buffalo wool at St. Paul des Métis. . . .