wamus

'Yes, I expect I am; but that red wamus over yonder's redder' n ever now.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

At last he put his muffled mouth to my ear and shouted through the cape of his wamus.

The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

I saw him suddenly pull the cape of his wamus over his face, and reasoned that he also had been attacked by these invisible insects.

The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

Indian boy was his retainer because the porcupine quill decorations on his buckskin shirt had the same peculiar pattern as that on the wamus of the Wild Hunter himself as well as on the collar of the pet sheep I had killed, and also on the buckskin bag of gold.

The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

* A wamus in old times was a very heavy woollen garment.

The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894

Larkins's reply when criticised for wearing a wamus* in July.

The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894

Jeff emerges like Diana from the bath an 'frales the wamus off me with a club.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

Jeff emerges like Diana from the bath an 'frales the wamus off me with a club.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"Want to buy any cabbages?" said the bad boy to the grocery man, as he stopped at the door of the grocery, dressed in a blue wamus, his breeches tucked in his boots, and an old hat on his head, with a hole that let out his hair through the top.

The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 1878

To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate.

Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870