buffalo robe

American  

noun

1. the prepared skin of an American bison, with the hair left on, used as a lap robe, rug, or blanket.

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Etymology

Origin of buffalo robe

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

Example Sentences

This was his buffalo robe, they tell me.

From Washington Post

The doctor, the daughter of the last traditional chief of the Omaha Tribe, Iron Eye or Joseph La Flesche, passed up more lucrative offers to return to the Omaha Reservation, where she did house calls in a horse and buggy and wrapped in a buffalo robe.

From Washington Times

While wood gathering with his grandfather, an Indian skeleton wrapped in a worn buffalo robe rolled out at Frison’s feet from a juniper tree they were cutting.

From Washington Times

My father-in-law drove off to Dartmouth College in a Stutz with a buffalo robe.

From New York Times

I stretched out on the old couch, with the buffalo robe under me.

From Project Gutenberg