1894 Brewer’s / B / Buffalo Robe (A)
The skin of a bison dressed without removing the hair, and used as a travelling rug. The word “robe” is often omitted.
“The large and roomy sleigh was decked with buffalo robes, red-bound, and furnished with sham eyes and ears.”—The Upper Ten Thousand, p. 4.
“Leaving all hands under their buffaloes.”—Kane: Arctic Expedition.
· ·
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.