Parfleche

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parfleche \Par*fleche"\, n. [Prob. through Canadian F. fr. Amer.
     Indian.]
     A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo,
     which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the
     hairs, and then dried.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]