Buffalo

A buffalo-robe.

1840.  Do n’t forgit to Put in as many Seats as you can and All your Buffaloes.—Knick. Mag., xv. 326 (April).

1842.  It’s my vote that we turn these contraptions, the whole bilin’ on ’em, right out into the shed, and jist make up a good big shake-down, with buffaloes and cushions.—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘Forest Life,’ i. 118.

1852.  They tell a good story of two Englishmen just arrived in Boston. They ordered a sleigh, having heard of such a thing in a general way, without being conversant with the particulars of it. ‘Will you have one buffalo or two?’ asked the hostler. ‘Why,’ says Cockney, looking a little frightened, ‘we’ll have only one the first time, as we’re not used to driving them.’—C. A. Bristed, ‘The Upper Ten Thousand,’ p. 14 n. (N.Y.).

1853.  [He] covered him [his horse] with one of his two ample “buffaloes,” (as the cured skins of the American bison are commonly called,) tucked the corners of it into the harness to make it keep its place, and followed Cook into the kitchen.—‘Turnover: a Tale of New Hampshire,’ p. 12 (Boston).

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1857.  Looking out for number one, I therefore established myself in the back seat, seized upon a double allowance of buffaloes, wrapped my shawl closely about my throat and ears, lit a segar, and prepared generally to be as disagreeable company as possible, should any one venture into very close proximity to my quarters.—Knick. Mag., xlix. 67 (Jan.).

1862.  The student, cold and ashamed, tramps homeward in disgusted dignity, his arms loaded down with buffaloes and cushions, and his mind harassed with dismal apprehensions of disaster, disgrace and penury.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxvii. 208 (March).