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muff pistols

muff pistols is the plural of muff pistol.

Meaning of muff pistol

Noun

muff pistol (plural muff pistols)

  1. (historical) A small flintlock or percussion gun, usually for women, which can be hidden in a muff (hand-warmer).
    • A century earlier [than the 1870s], women in dangerous professions, such as tending bar or prostitution, carried a “lady's muff pistol.”2006, Elisabeth Israels Perry and Jennifer Ann Price, expanatory note for An American girl, and her four years in a boys' college by Olive San Louie Anderson, page 203

Questions about muff pistols

What is muff pistols the plural of?
Muff pistols is the plural of muff pistol.

Words near muff pistols in the dictionary

  1. muff
  2. muff diver
  3. muff divers
  4. muff diving
  5. muff pistol
  6. muff pistols
  7. muff up
  8. muff-diver
  9. muff-divers
  10. muff-diving
  11. muffaletta

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