match-coat

“” Having received plentiful supplies as a gift from the French, but entertaining the worst misgivings as to their “artifices, ” the young officer began his return journey, during which, in spite of all trouble, he managed to pay a visit to Queen Aliquippa: “I made her a present, ” he wrote, “of a match-coat and a bottle of rum, which latter was thought much the best present of the two.”

Washington and the French. III. I

“Were your people easy to fool, giving twelve deerskins for an old match-coat?”

Audrey

“But in winter they carry them in the hollow of their match-coat at their back, leaving nothing but the child's head out. '”

Labor Among Primitive Peoples

“Some of his nearest of kin brings all the temporal estate he was possessed of at his death, as guns, bows and arrows, beads, feathers, match-coat, &c.”

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

“Perceiving there was a man near the door I went out; the man had a tomahawk wrapped under his match-coat out of sight.”

The Journal of John Woolman

“The nan\e of the kct or match-coat thrown over all, core -”

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