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rabbit-skin blanket

• a warm blanket or robe made by cutting the skins of rabbits, or hares, into long strips and weaving them together, long used by the Indians and adopted by others in the Northwest.

  See also: rabbit(-skin) robe  

  • 1793  (1801)  They were clad in leather, and had some beaver and rabbit-skin blankets.
  • 1921  It was fortunate that he had a rabbit skin blanket and that the weather was not extremely cold. . . .
  • 1963  The rabbit skin blanket was . . . porous yet close, light and warm, and the best covering to keep man comfortable underneath that was ever used in a cold country.