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mittaine
[< Cdn F]
North, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
heavy fur gloves.
Quotations
1872
I was well found in blankets, deer-skins, and moccassins; all the appliances of half-breed apparel had been brought into play to fit me out, and I found myself possessed of ample stores of leggings, buffalo 'mittaines' and capôts, wherewith to face the biting breeze of the prairie and to stand at night the icy bivouac.
1872
. . . the large moose-skin "mittaines" [were] taken into wear. . . .
1880
. . . its rapid movement has done more to make the blood course freely through their bodies than capote or mittaine or fur-cap could ever achieve on such a [cold] morning.