muff pistol
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A small flintlock or percussion gun, usually for women, which can be hidden in a muff…
A small flintlock or percussion gun, usually for women, which can be hidden in a muff (hand-warmer).
- A century earlier [than the 1870s], women in dangerous professions, such as tending bar or prostitution, carried a “lady's muff pistol.”
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