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shinigbee
[< Esk. sinnigbi(k)]
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n.
a type of sleeping-bag.
See: sleeping-bag
Quotations
1897
The "shin-ig-bee," or Eskimo sleeping bag, is an article essential to the comfort of the traveller when making long overland journeys during the cold winter season.
1909
Lothario, one night, crossed the icy gully, entered the igloo of his elect, seized her in her shin-ig-bee, or sleeping-bag and lifted the dear burden over his back.