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Mackinaw blanket

• 1 a heavily napped and felted woollen cloth from which blankets and articles of clothing are made, nowadays usually of plaid design.

  See also: Mackinaw (def. 1)  

  • 1853  (1892)  The personal equipment of the men was a buffalo-robe for the party to lie upon, and a bag of Mackinaw blanket for each man to crawl into at night

• 2 a blanket of Mackinaw (def. 1).

  See also: Mackinaw (def. 2)  

  • 1960  A heavy blanket is known as a machinaw blanket. . . .