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Meaning of buffalo robe | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.

Examples

“The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tucked over them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds had streaked the prairie a few miles to the west.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

buffalo sauce buffalo soldier buffalo thorn Buffalo Trace buffalo wing buffalo worm

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