parfleche
Americannoun
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a rawhide that has been dried after having been soaked in a solution of lye and water to remove the hair.
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an article or object, as a case, pouch, etc., made of such rawhide.
noun
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a sheet of rawhide that has been dried after soaking in lye and water to remove the hair
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an object, such as a case, made of this
Etymology
Origin of parfleche
1820–30; < Canadian French parflèche, equivalent to French par ( er ) to parry ( see para- 2) + flèche arrow
Example Sentences
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She won the best in class for youth for her painted parfleche purse.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
The other old men who are to join them and the two medicinemen go in while the two women remain seated on a robe just west of it with the parfleche beside them.
From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark
The men dress, and the parfleche containing the tongues is opened and the tongues given to the members of the society who made the sweathouse.
From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark
Then everybody began to sing hard, and four young men pounded with sticks on a parfleche, in time to the music.
From When Buffalo Ran by Grinnell, George Bird
Catlin 168 54. a, Arikara rake. b, Arikara hoe. c, Crow parfleche box 178 55.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
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