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‖ parfleche|parflɛʃ|
Also -flesh, -flash.
[app. Canadian Fr.]
Among some North American Indian peoples: A hide, usually of a buffalo, deprived of the hair and dried by stretching on a frame; an article made of such hide. Occas. fig. Hence parˈfleched a., made or covered with parfleche.
1827E. Ermatinger in Trans. R. Soc. Canada 1912 (1913) VI. ii. 110 We embarked with crews and cargoes as follows: viz..1 pack Parfleches. 1845J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Expedition 237 Some of us had the misfortune to wear moccasins with parflêche soles, so slippery that we could not keep our feet. 1850L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah vii. 106 With a sole of par-fleche, lapping over on top of the foot. 1867Harper's Mag. Oct. 584/2 The teet-sock or parfleche is generally made of a dried buffalo hide, the hair of which has been beaten off with a stone..; it is then cut in the shape of an envelope. 1870De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 168 Opposite the chief..lay several very fine robes and parfleshes finely painted. 1882R. I. Dodge Our Wild Indians xix. 254 note, Among almost all the Plains tribes, the common name for a skin so prepared is ‘parfleche’, and almost everything made of it is also ‘parfleche’. 1899G. B. Grinnell in Atlantic Monthly LXXXIII. 25/2 In an Indian village..the hand that scrapes the parfleche rules the camp. a1918G. Stuart 40 Yrs. on Frontier (1925) II. 40 [The medicine man] usually had a highly ornamental parflash, in which he kept one or more fetishes. 1938P. H. Godsell Red Hunters of Snows 33 Here braves..stored..commodities in painted parfleche bags for the forthcoming journey to York Factory. 1940F. Niven Mine Inheritance 61, I saw her bending over another parflèched box in front of the tent and taking out two long, gleaming knives. 1952Beaver June 6/1 The hides were manufactured into robes or were divested of their hair and made into tepee covers, clothing, moccasins, parfléche trunks and shields. 1956V. Fisher Pemmican 199 The old man's face was a parfleche of seams. 1972D. Kennedy Recoll. Assiniboine Chief 92 These parfleches were made from flint hides with the hair scraped off. They were decorated with colours in geometric designs. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 78 Parfleches are large envelopes of rawhide used in the Plains to pack dried food and other things. 1974Sci. Amer. Jan. 129/1 These modern ingenuities do not overshadow the photographs within: a parfleche, a yurt or an old folding feather-bed-in-a-chest. |