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Buffalo Robe (A)

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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