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Definition of Mackinaw blanket
1. Noun. A thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackinaw Blanket
Literary usage of Mackinaw blanket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Mackinaw blanket, or simply Mackinaw. A heavy blanket originally used in the
Indian trade, the chief post for which was formerly at Mackinac (pron. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Mackinaw blanket. A thick blanket used by the Indians of the North-West. 1839 We
had Mackinaw-blankets, stretched upon balsam branches, to recline upon. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Mackinaw blanket. [So called from Mackinaw, an abbreviated form of Michilli-mackinac,
the name of an island in the strait connecting Lakes Michigan and ..."
4. Old Mackinaw, Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings by William Peter Strickland (1860)
"... the "Mackinaw boat" and the "Mackinaw blanket," are famous over the world.
Between Little Traverse and Mackinaw is the village of Cross, or La Crosse. ..."
5. Historic Mackinac: The Historical, Picturesque and Legendary Features of the by Edwin Orin Wood (1918)
"APPLICATION OF THE NAME "MACKINAW" The "Mackinaw coat," "Mackinaw boat," "Mackinaw
trout," and "Mackinaw blanket," have each carried the name to every ..."
6. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North by George Catlin (1841)
"... and judged so from the experiments which we made in the following manner:—We
several times took a large mackinaw blanket which I had in the canoe, ..."
7. The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes by Emma Helen Blair, Nicolas Perrot, Morrell Marston, Thomas Forsyth, Paul Radin, Gertrude M. Robertson (1912)
"Indeed, in 1831 a home plant was established in Buffalo for the manufacture of
what was called the Mackinaw blanket. . . In our system of educating them, ..."
8. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"Mackinaw blanket—Very heavy, all-wool blanket, dyed red. blue or woven In stripes:
used for camping and outdoor life, as it is almost waterproof. ..."
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