buffalo wool cloth

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of cloth made from buffalo wool by the Buffalo Wool Company.

Quotations

1885

It cost $12.50 to manufacture a yard of buffalo wool cloth on Red River, and the cloth only sold for $1.10 in London.

1923

Large sums were consumed in efforts to manufacture buffalo wool cloth, but it cost many times more than English cloth, to which it was inferior.