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buffalo skin

• 1 especially among fur traders, a buffalo hide dressed on both sides.

  See also: buffalo robe  skin (def. 2)  

  • 1754  (1907)  . . . he received us seated on a clear (white) Buffalo skin, attended by 20 elderly men.
  • 1953  In the middle of the prairillon was a lake, with buffalo-skin tepees pitched around it.

• 2a Obs. See robe (def. 1b) 1848 quote.

  See also: buffalo robe  robe (def. 1b)  

  • 1769  (1931)  . . . we have a large buffaloe's skin under our feet, which turns up, and wraps round us almost to our shoulders. . . .
  • 1837  Ten shillings reward will be paid to any one who has found my Buffalo Skin, and will bring it to me.

• 2b a long winter coat of buffalo skin.

  See also: buffalo coat  

  • 1957  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, dismounted and bundled in buffalo skins, shivered and stamped their feet on the slippery driveway.