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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.]