Definitions
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- adjective Made from buffalo
leather orhide . - noun uncountable
Leather made frombuffalo hide. - noun countable The hide, whether
tanned or not, of one buffalo. - noun countable An article of
clothing manufactured from buffalo-skin. Often constructed in the plural.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Wallace provided his interesting charge with an artificial mother of buffalo-skin, but the cheat was too successful.
Essays 2007
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There was a small bed with a dirty buffalo-skin upon it; I took it up, and swarms of living creatures fell out of it, and the floor was literally alive with them.
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Finding it so fond of hair, I endeavoured to make an artificial mother, by wrapping up a piece of buffalo-skin into a bundle, and suspending it about a foot from the floor.
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MR. PODESTA: I don't think the President will be wearing a buffalo-skin coat - (laughter) - but I think we'll have a good time there today.
Press Briefing By John Podesta To The Pool ITY National Archives 2000
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They rewrapped the heads of their lances and made sure their buffalo-skin shields were taut.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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They rewrapped the heads of their lances and made sure their buffalo-skin shields were taut.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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They rewrapped the heads of their lances and made sure their buffalo-skin shields were taut.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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They rewrapped the heads of their lances and made sure their buffalo-skin shields were taut.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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They were big men with buffalo-skin coats and long shaggy hair— they looked like the animals they hunted.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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They were big men with buffalo-skin coats and long shaggy hair— they looked like the animals they hunted.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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