buffalo robe

English

Noun

buffalo robe (plural buffalo robes)

(US, historical) A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.
1920 The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tucked over them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds had streaked the prairie a few miles to the west. — Lewis Sinclair, Main Street.

Translations

A cured bison hide used as a blanket or wrap

Navajo: chʼidí

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