traîneau

Updated: May 4, 2025

Squaw, like a provident housekeeper, had whole balls of it in her traineau ready for use; also rolls of birch-bark, which, when the skeleton wigwam was quite ship-shape, and well interlaced with crossbars of supple boughs, she began to wrap round in the fashion of a covering skirt.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement