1841 11 Nov. 2/1 Thomas Arbuthnot, ship, for Calcutta..1 parcel (oppossum rug).
1871 C. L. Money 74 A pannikin of tea, or half his blanket or opossum rug, are always at your disposal.
1963 B. Malinowski ii. 37 As a sign the boy's father gives the girl an opossum rug, shows her attention, and gives her ‘nice things to eat’.