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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Canadian French parflèche, from French parer to ward off + flèche arrow Date: 1827 1. a raw hide soaked in lye to remove the hair and dried 2. an article (as a bag or case) made of parfleche

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.