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buffalo robes

buffalo robes is the plural of buffalo robe.

Meaning of buffalo robe

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

Questions about buffalo robes

What is buffalo robes the plural of?
Buffalo robes is the plural of buffalo robe.

Words near buffalo robes in the dictionary

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

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