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buffalo robe

buffalo robe noun: a cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.

Noun

buffalo robe (plural buffalo robes)

  1. (US, historical) A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.
    • The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tucked over them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds had streaked the prairie a few...1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC

Forms of buffalo robe

pluralbuffalo robes

Questions about buffalo robe

What does buffalo robe mean?
Buffalo robe means a cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.
What part of speech is buffalo robe?
Buffalo robe is a noun.
What is the plural of buffalo robe?
The plural of buffalo robe is buffalo robes.

Words near buffalo robe in the dictionary

  1. buffalo hump
  2. buffalo humps
  3. buffalo jump
  4. buffalo jumps
  5. Buffalo River
  6. buffalo robe
  7. buffalo robes
  8. buffalo sauce
  9. buffalo sauces
  10. buffalo soldier
  11. buffalo soldiers

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