Definition of "wamus" [wamus]

• A warm knitted jacket from the south-west of the USA. (noun)

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