DCHP-2

buffalo coat DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.