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buffalo
buf‧fa‧lo/ˈbʌfələʊ $ -loʊ/ noun (plural buffaloes or buffalo) [COUNTABLE] 1. an African animal similar to a large cow with long curved horns ⇨ water buffalo
2. a bison
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES water buffalo COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN hide ▪ Made from buffalo hide and deerskin, it is decorated with eagle feathers. ▪ At night, the men sometimes got out a fiddle and pegged down a dry buffalo hide and danced on it. ▪ In the 18705, the equation than turned buffalo hides into buffing rags brought a lot of money here. meat ▪ Any leftover cooked buffalo meat from roasts can be added just long enough to warm it thoroughly. ▪ Season the buffalo meat with pepper, thyme, rosemary, salt, ground chili, and cumin. ▪ The Sioux boiled buffalo meat with heated rocks in a buffalo paunch, then ate the paunch, too. ▪ Fresh buffalo meat was hard to ship, because it would not travel except in the cold months. ▪ She served them a dinner of coffee, beans, potatoes, and salted buffalo meat. robe ▪ The buffalo robes were good for keeping warm in carriages in northern cities. ▪ Tiredness ached in her bones, she sagged and rocked, hunched in her blanket with the buffalo robe around her feet. ▪ That done, the sick man and the buffalo robe were removed. ▪ Moses McTavish and I ducked through his tipi door and sat cross-legged on buffalo robes around the fire pit in the center. ▪ A wife, if she worked hard, could prepare ten buffalo robes for trade in a season. ▪ At the traders', one buffalo robe was worth from seven to nine cups of sugar. water ▪ A great white heron uses a water buffalo as a fishing perch. ▪ We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo. ▪ Rice paddies and corn fields stretched away from the road. Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies. ▪ Along the staircase of the Legislative Council building are old paintings of water buffalo and bamboo paddies. ▪ Once we were harangued to eat protein, and heaven help the poor water buffalo who ambled past me at mealtime. ▪ Outside, ducks and water buffalo roam free. ▪ They might have been water buffalo. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Coat buffalo steaks with oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. ▪ Despite its size, the buffalo is a very fast animal and can run up to thirty-five miles per hour. ▪ Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it. ▪ I am out here alone, unprotected, only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions, buffalo, leopards and hyena. ▪ It is illustrated with drawings of buffalo, giraffe, warthog and camp scenes, and describes a rhino hunt. ▪ They can also catch kinds of prey that they could not catch by themselves, such as buffalo. ▪ We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo. ▪ When the buffalo were slaughtered, they lay so thick on the ground that you could walk for miles on the bodies.
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