DCHP-1 Online
buffalo coat 
a long winter coat of buffalo skin.
See also: buffalo skin (def. 2b)
- 1846 (1945) All sentries, by day or night, were provided with buffalo coats kept at each post for their use.
- 1871 . . . the greater part of the congregation assembled at the door in their buffalo coats and furs. . . .
- 1956 The same old man on the camp chair who'd been there the other night, but now in an old buffalo coat, was holding bags in one team.
- 1846 (1945) All sentries, by day or night, were provided with buffalo coats kept at each post for their use.