buffalo robe

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of buffalo robe¹

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

Example Sentences

This was his buffalo robe, they tell me.

From Washington Post

In spite of the intense cold, Crazy Horse tossed off his buffalo robe so he could handle his weapons more easily.

From Literature

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

Then Turner fetched the soapstones and they headed to Yarmouth, the wind on their beam now and colder, so that Turner hunched the buffalo robe up around him and wished that the embers in the foot warmers weren’t dying so quickly.

From Literature

I pulled a big furry buffalo robe out of mine.

From Literature